Benchmarks : great constitutional controversies in the Supreme Court / edited by Terry Eastland ; foreword by Griffin B. Bell.

Other author Eastland, Terry.
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Ethics and Public Policy Center ; Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1995.
Descriptionxviii, 181 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Judicial review--United States.
Constitutional law--United States.

Contents Constitutional interpretation in the Court's first decades / Walter Berns -- Interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment: approaches in Slaughter-House and Plessy / Charles F. Lofgren -- On the structure of privacy: Adair and Coppage revisited / Hadley Arkes -- Constitutional rights in a federal system: rethinking incorporation and reverse incorporation in Patterson and Gitlow / Akhil Reed Amar -- The right to be let alone: constitutional privacy in Griswold, Roe, and Bowers / Nadine Strossen -- Shall we ratify the new constitution? the judicial manifesto in Casey and Lee / Gerard V. Bradley -- Toward a structural approach to constitutional interpretation / Mary Ann Glendon.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 94043332
ISBN0802837719 (cloth)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks KF4550 .B375 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold