Since ratification of the First Amendment in the late eighteenth century, there has been a sea change in American life. When the amendment was ratified, individuals were almost completely free of unwanted speech; but today they are besieged by it. Indeed, the First Amendment has, for all practical purposes, been commandeered by the media to justify intrusions of offensive speech into private life.
In its application, the First Amendment has become one-sided. Even though America is virtually drowning in speech, the First Amendment only applies to the speaker's delivery of speech. Left...
Since ratification of the First Amendment in the late eighteenth century, there has been a sea change in American life. When the amendment was rati...
Thomas Walsh, a prominent Chicago attorney, didn't know why he was attending his high school reunion. He never liked the school, or the town. Maybe it was the guilt about his wife, or that messy political scandal, that made him agree to attend. Whatever it was, it had kept him from seeing that the reunion might remind him of the accident that left a fellow classmate, Donavon Killerman, blind and orphaned. Until now, Thomas had never felt guilty about his involvement in that accident. Blindly seeking a needed sense of moral redemption, he checks into Donavon's fishing resort under a false...
Thomas Walsh, a prominent Chicago attorney, didn't know why he was attending his high school reunion. He never liked the school, or the town. Maybe it...
After an inner city family is shot and killed by a young boy, the police commence a search for the person who supplied the gun to the boy. Milo Krantz is one of the first to be arrested. As a rent collector for a notorious slumlord, he is one of the most despised people in the neighborhood. Milo is no stranger to police stations and actually seems happy when he is arrested, knowing that his boss always gives him a raise whenever he gets harassed by the police. But later, when appearing in front of the judge, Milo does an abrupt about-face: he not only confesses to the crime, he refuses...
After an inner city family is shot and killed by a young boy, the police commence a search for the person who supplied the gun to the boy. Milo Krantz...
An Entrenched Legacy takes a fresh look at the role of the Supreme Court in our modern constitutional system. Although criticisms of judicial power today often attribute its rise to the activism of justices seeking to advance particular political ideologies, Patrick Garry argues instead that the Supreme Court's power has grown mainly because of certain constitutional decisions during the New Deal era that initially seemed to portend a lessening of the Court's power.
When the Court retreated from enforcing separation of powers and federalism as the twin structural...
An Entrenched Legacy takes a fresh look at the role of the Supreme Court in our modern constitutional system. Although criticisms of judic...
South Dakota was the first state in the nation's history to adopt the Initiative and Referendum, making it permissible for the people to initiate a constitutional amendment, on a statewide level in 1898. While it continues to be a controversial procedure, Patrick Garry discusses this in-depth while providing the only definitive reference resource on the South Dakota Constitution, including all significant court decisions interpreting each Section. The South Dakota Constitution features the rich history and development of constitutionalism in the state. It provides the complete...
South Dakota was the first state in the nation's history to adopt the Initiative and Referendum, making it permissible for the people to initiate a co...
A book on a timely and powerful theme....While others have documented the damage that litigation does to our economy, Garry wants to show us its cost to our character as a nation. -- Walter Olson, Author, The Litigation Explosion Throughout our history, America has been shaped by a series of transforming events and institutions -- the Pilgrims' Puritanism, the promise of Jacksonian democracy, the staggering rise of corporate capitalism, and the advent of electronic media. Today, a new strain of litigious behavior veers our culture away from the proverbial melting pot to one in which fellow...
A book on a timely and powerful theme....While others have documented the damage that litigation does to our economy, Garry wants to show us its cost ...
