Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Constitutional

In 1934, Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier began a series of "congresses" with American Indians to discuss his proposed federal bill for granting self-government to tribal reservations. For the first time, the reservation Indian was asked for input in the structuring of American Indian relations with federal and state government and law. In The Indian Reorganization Act, Vine Deloria, Jr., has compiled the actual historical records of those congresses.

Deloria makes available important documents of the premier years of reform in federal Indian policy as well as the bill...

Established in 1961 by Alvin A. Goldberg, Franklyn S. Haiman, Mark Klyn, Robert M. O Neil, and George P. Rice to provide a forum for promoting the essential place of free and responsible communication in a democratic society, the "Yearbook "has sought for a quarter-century through articles, essays, and reviews to support the right of peaceful expression by any communicative means available.

Topics covered include points of constitutional law, court cases, government regulation, obscenity, philosophy of communication, and the teaching of communication."

Rodgers divides this edition of the "Free Speech Yearbook "into four categories: "Historical Studies"; "Contemporary Issues"; "Franklyn S. Haiman s "Speech and Law in a Free Society: "Four Retrospective Critiques"; and "Resources and Reviews."

Contributors are Stephen A. Smith, Donald Fishman, John Bassett, Joseph A. Bulsys, John J. Makay, Gene Lanier, James Tallmon, Koron L. Jahn, Paul Siegel, William E. Bailey, Raymond S. Rodgers, Franklyn S. Haiman, William A. Linsley, Eric Holcomb, Henry L. Ewbank, Charles C. Howard, Tony Parker, and Edward Funkhouser."

Rodgers divides this edition of the "Free Speech Yearbook "into four categories: "Historical Studies"; "Contemporary Issues"; "Franklyn S. Haiman s "Speech and Law in a Free Society: "Four Retrospective Critiques"; and "Resources and Reviews."

Contributors are Stephen A. Smith, Donald Fishman, John Bassett, Joseph A. Bulsys, John J. Makay, Gene Lanier, James Tallmon, Koron L. Jahn, Paul Siegel, William E. Bailey, Raymond S. Rodgers, Franklyn S. Haiman, William A. Linsley, Eric Holcomb, Henry L. Ewbank, Charles C. Howard, Tony Parker, and Edward Funkhouser."

This volume of the "Yearbook "commemorates the bicentennial of the signing of the Bill of Rights and is dedicated to William J. Brennan, Jr., Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, 19561990.

Anthony Lewis recalls Justice Brennan s bold support of the First Amendment. In the Preface, Raymond S. Rodgers examines the press management imposed during Operation Desert Storm.

Franklyn S. Haiman looks to the future in "The First Amendment in Its Third Century: The Majoritarian Challenge," and W. W. Finlator discusses "Mr. Jefferson s Wall and Christian America." Harry C. Martin and...

As Americans, we often take our many freedoms for granted. It is easy to forget the difficulties many of our ancestors faced when fighting for the rights we now enjoy. Because the United States is a "nation of laws and not of men," these people were able to challenge unfair laws in hope of a better future. Fights for Rights explains our everyday rights of free speech, religion, the rights of the accused, and how our Constitution guarantees these rights for all people.

Because the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tell us what the Constitution means, they can create constitutional change. For quite some time, general readers who have been interested in understanding those changes have not had a concise volume that explores major decisions in which those changes occur. Traditional casebooks used in law schools typically pay scant attention to the historical and political context in which cases are decided, as well as the motives of litigants, the involvement of interest groups, and the justices' concerns with policy outcomes, even though all these...

During a career as both a lawyer and a Supreme Court justice, Benjamin R. Curtis addressed practically every major constitutional question of the mid-nineteenth century, making judgments that still resonate in American law. Aside from a family memoir written by his brother over one hundred years ago, however, no book-length treatment of Curtis exists. Now Stuart Streichler has filled this gap in judicial biography, using Curtis's life and work as a window on the most serious constitutional crisis in American history, the Civil War.

Curtis was the lead attorney for President Andrew...