 | The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.69 Jeffrey Rosen (Harvard, BA, Summa Cum Laude; Oxford, BA; Yale Law School (JD) is a Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. He has been a contributor to NPR and to New Republic.
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 | Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court by Jan Crawford Greenburg
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.40 Jan Crawford Greenburg covered the Supreme Court for PBS's Macneill/ Lehrer Hour and for ABC News. She is a journalist and a member of the Bar.
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 | The Supreme Court: An Essential History by Peter Charles Hoffer
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 | A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our ConstitutionRevised Edition by Peter Irons
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 | The American Supreme Court (The Chicago History of American Civilization) by Robert G. McCloskey
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 | The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
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 | Landmark Supreme Court Cases: The Most Influential Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States by Gary R. Hartman
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 | The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction by Charles Lane
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $7.35 In 1873, a group of white men descended upon the town hall in Colfax, LA, while it was occupied by black defenders. In the ensuing chaos, over 150 blacks were killed. The US Attorney charged the defendants with violating their civil rights. The US Supreme Court ruled that federal courts did not have jurisdiction, and that the murders were a state matter.
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 | It Is So Ordered: The Supreme Court Rules on School Segregation by Daniel M. Berman
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 | The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth (Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Co) by William R. Casto
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 | The Supreme Court Under Marshall And Taney (American History) by R. Kent Newmyer
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 | John Marshall: Definer of a Nation by Jean Edward Smith
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 | Dred Scott V. Sanford (Great Supreme Court Decisions) by Tim McNeese
Buy new: $29.65 / Used from: $7.42 Dred Scott V. Sanford (1857) held that former slaves had no standing to sue in Fedeeral Court because they were not citizens, but property. The Court also ruled that slaves could not sue in court, and that slavesas chattel or private propertycould not be taken away from their owners without due process.
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 | Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective (Galaxy Books) by Don E. Fehrenbacher
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 | Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America by Garrett Epps
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 | We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court by Michael J. Perry
Buy new: $39.33 / Used from: $5.99 The Fourteenth Amendment continues to raise constitutional questions before the Supreme Court.
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 | No Easy Walk to Freedom: Reconstruction and the Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment by James E. Bond
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 | The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, And the Fourteenth Amendment (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) by Ronald M. Labbe
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $8.00 It is viewed as a pivotal case in early civil rights law, as it narrowly read the Fourteenth Amendment to protect only "privileges or immunities" conferred by virtue of the United States but not state citizenship, a distinction which persists to this day. Properly known as Slaughter-House Cases,
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 | Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial by Janine Fuller
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 | Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Dealt with the concept of a Public Figure and defamation.
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 | Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain by Richard Epstein
Buy new: $29.75 / Used from: $7.53 A Rhode Island case expanded the authority of municipalities to appropriate private property for commercial use. (?)
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 | Private Property, Community Development, and Eminent Domain (Law, Property and Society) by Robin Paul Malloy
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 | Bulldozed:'Kelo,' Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land by Carla Main
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 | The Eminent Domain Revolt: Changing Perceptions in a New Constitutional Epoch by John Ryskamp
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $29.02 The case arose from the condemnation by New London, Connecticut, of privately owned real property so that it could be used as part of a comprehensive redevelopment plan. The Court held in a 5-4 decision that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified such redevelopment plans as a permissible "public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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 | Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment by Michael Meltsner
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 | Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture by Brian Jarvis
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 | The Bill of Rights - Freedom from Cruel and Unusual Punishment
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 | CrunchTime: Intellectual Property by Margreth Barrett
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 | Color Blind Justice: Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson by Mark Elliott
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