Description
This book is a collection of comprehensive background essays coupled with carefully edited Supreme Court case excerpts designed to explore constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation. Well-grounded in both theory and politics, the book endeavors to heighten students' understanding of this critical part of the American political system.
New to the 18th Edition
- An account of the Trump impeachments and a full discussion of the recent Supreme Court transitions including recent Supreme Court transitions including the fraught Kavanaugh hearings, the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and the nomination process surrounding Amy Coney Barrett.
- Fourteen new cases carefully edited and excerpted, including Chifalo v. Washington (2020) on the Electoral College, Masterpiece Cakeshop (2018) on gay rights, and three Trump cases as well.
- Thirty-one new cases discussed in chapter essays in addition.
Author: Alpheus Thomas Mason, Donald Grier Stephenson Jr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/29/2021
Pages: 806
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.18lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 1.70d
ISBN13: 9780367758639
ISBN10: 0367758636
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | General
- Law | Constitutional
About the Author
Alpheus Thomas Mason (late) was McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Princeton University.
Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr. is Charles A. Dana Professor of Government, Emeritus, at Franklin and Marshall College where he taught from 1970 until 2017. Reared on a farm near Covington, Georgia, he is a graduate of Davidson College (1964), and received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1966 and 1967, respectively. Between 1968 and 1970 he was in the United States Army, completing his service at the rank of captain. He is author of Campaigns and the Court: The U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elections (1999), The Waite Court (2003), and The Right to Vote (2004), and is coauthor of American Constitutional Law (17th ed. 2018), and Introduction to American Government (9th ed., 2017). He writes "The Judicial Bookshelf" for The Journal of Supreme Court History.
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