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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Constitutional law—United States"”.
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The new constitutional law.
… to Congress his plan for establishing the constitutionality of the New Deal by packing the Supreme Court. All of the justices then sitting have been replaced by Roosevelt and Truman appointees. After an unprecedented outburst of destructive activity in 1935 and 1936, in which the Court …
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Reexamining the "Constitutional Revolution of 1937": Evolution, Revolution, or Restoration and the "Fall" of Economic Due Process
… and reverse the principal tenets of its prior constitutional doctrine. The traditional account has been widely accepted for decades, despite serious doubts about its accuracy. In the 1990s, revisionist legal scholars began to publish new theories of the “revolution” rooted in the development of …
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The United States Supreme Court's Volitional Agendas, 1801-1993: Historical Claims versus Empirical Findings
In this study, I examined the Supreme Court's agenda from 1801 to 1993 to determine the composition and dynamics of the issues that have dominated the business of the Court. Specifically, I set out to test empirically Robert G. McCloskey's (now standard) characterization of the Supreme Court's …
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Judicial rhetoric and radical politics: sexuality, race, and the fourteenth amendment
… can claim existence as legal subjects in the United States. I combine doctrinal, rhetorical, and queer methods of legal analysis to examine how judicial arguments about due process and equal protection produce different possibilities for the articulation of queer of color identity in, through, …