Warren Court: Constitutional Decision as an Instrument of Reform - Hardcover

Cox, Archibald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674947401 ISBN 13: 9780674947405

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1968

Inhaltsangabe

Describes the widespread social, economic, and political pressures behind Supreme Court actions since 1953 and assesses the long-range consequences of these constitutional decisions

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The appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States in 1953 marked the opening of a new era in the nation's constitutional development. As Mr. Cox points out in his Preface, during the next fifteen years the Supreme Court rewrote, with profound social consequences, major constitutional doctrines governing race relations, the administration of criminal justice, and the operation of the political process. The extent and the rapidity of these changes raise grave questions concerning the nature and function of constitutional adjudication and the proper role of the Supreme Court in the national life. In these lectures, originally given in somewhat shorter form in Honolulu in the summer of 1967 under the joint auspices of Harvard Law School and the University of Hawaii, Mr. Cox describes the main lines of constitutional development under the Warren Court. He analyzes the underlying pressures involved and the long-range institutional consequences in terms of the distribution of governmental power. The central theme of Mr. Cox's book is embodied in his examination of the American paradox that invests the judicial branch with the responsibility of deciding according to law our most pressing and divisive social, economic, and political questions. Although not uncritical of the grounds on which several of the court's crucial decisions have been reached, Mr. Cox comes to the conclusion that the trend of the rulings has been in keeping with the mainstream of American history--a bit progressive but also moderate, a bit humane but not sentimental, a bit idealistic but seldom doctrinaire, and in the long run essentially pragmatic--in short, in keeping with the truegenius of our institutions.

Biografía del autor

Archibald Cox, Jr., (May 12, 1912 May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy, and later became best known as the first special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1968
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674947401
• ISBN 13: 9780674947405
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154
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