I dissent
great opposing opinions in landmark Supreme Court cases
- ISBN: 9780807000366
- Editorial: Beacon Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2009
- Lugar de la edición: Boston (Massachussets). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 227
- Idiomas: Inglés
Ed. Mark Tushnet. In offering thirteen famous dissents - from Marbury v. Madison and Brown v. Board of Education to Griswold v. Connecticut and Lawrence v. Texas, each edited with the judges' eloquence preserved - Supreme Court scholar Mark Tushnet reminds us that court decisions are not pronouncements issued by the utterly objective, they are in fact political statements from highly intelligent but partisan people. Tushnet introduces readers to the very concept of dissent in the courts and then provides useful context for each case, filling in gaps in the Court's history and providing an overview of the issues at stake. After each case, he considers the impact the dissenting opinion would have had, if it had been the majority decision.
Ed. Mark Tushnet
