American Constitutional Development: The Rights of Persons, Volume II - Softcover

Randall, Richard S.

 
9780801320217: American Constitutional Development: The Rights of Persons, Volume II

Synopsis

• Cases and text combine to provide a look at how individual rights have been doctrinally shaped by the Supreme Court through interpretation of constitutional and statutory law. • Analyzes how America's ideological commitment to rights is transformed by the Supreme Court into law and legal doctrine and then into enforceable rules in specific cases. • Places unique emphasis on the political, economic, social and developmental aspects of the Supreme Court's civil liberties decisions. • Includes an abundance of cases, more than 100 in all.

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