Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 453 for “"Supreme Court"”.
-
Shaping the Supreme Court
… American history (Stevenson 2019, 19). Since the Supreme Court of the United States has the power through judicial review to determine the constitutionality of state legislation, the abortion issue eventually made its way through the court system. Abortion has proven itself to be a complicated …
-
Supreme Court audio file search engine
… people to search the transcripts of selected Supreme Court cases, and retrieve audio file clips relevant to the search terms. The system development compared two implementation approaches, one based on transcript aligning technologies developed by Hewlett-Packard, the other is a servlet-based …
-
Impact: The Supreme Court in American Politics
… when, how, and under what conditions does the Supreme Court make or influence policy and politics in the United States? In working to answer this question, I demonstrate that the Supreme Court has significantly more power and influence than scholars have typically given it credit for. I argue …
-
Nominations to the Supreme Court, 1893-1908
… McLaughlin refers to the Senate's control over Supreme Court appointments as a delicate and difficult question* "There is nothing," he remarks, "hut a high regard for the ethics, an appreciation of the duty of public servants, to restrain them from using the powers of appointment to attain their …
-
A supreme court of law for India.
Thesis: B. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1964
-
The Power Behind the Constitution: The Supreme Court.
… the Constitution designed a document to be the "Supreme Law of the Land" and within its pages a branch of government, a federal judiciary, never before envisioned. The Constitution, along with the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789, set the framework for building the strongest branch of government, …
-
The relations of Congress and the Supreme Court
Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-09T23:47:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 5956765.pdf: 10826305 bytes, checksum: 4b2b3ea512807fef205f16b8f4ff643e (MD5) license.txt: 4183 bytes, checksum: 1dcc2037833d76bede73d5717587543b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1894
-
The inherent review jurisdiction of the supreme court
… concerns the inherent review jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The remedy is isolated from, examined and compared with the (general) inherent jurisdiction of the Court. The purpose of the remedy is: • i) to control, supervise, or otherwise confine administrative authorities, · tribunals and …
-
Bowers v. Lawrence: the Narratives of the Supreme Court
This thesis examines the rhetoric of the Court's opinions in Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas from a narrative approach informed by theories on the rhetorical situation. The Bowers majority opinion is framed around themes of history, morality and a reductionist understanding of sexual …
-
The role of the Supreme Court in antitrust enforcement.
… focusing on the institutional role played by the Supreme Court in balancing the contentions of the political branches, the enforcement agencies, and the advocates of various schools of economic thought, while also working internally to develop those rules of statutory construction and …
-
The Florida Supreme Court: A Study in Judicial Selection
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:25:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0015182.pdf: 15091400 bytes, checksum: fd637d07be1918c699e86031eef6951a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1955
-
The Impact of Institutional Rules on the U.S. Supreme Court
Assessing Judicial Certainty: The Supreme Court's Use of Questions and Statements During Oral Arguments The United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments for every case granted full consideration. These proceedings are an hour in length with each party receiving exactly 30 minutes to state its …
-
External Constraints and Internal Norms on the U.S. Supreme Court
… In other words, I address the questions why the Court can come to consensus at all and why do individual justices join the majority coalition against their sincere policy preferences. Drawing from scholarship on the Court’s maintenance of its institutional legitimacy, I posit that external …
-
Religious institutions and associational freedom in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.
… in the American legal tradition. I analyze the Supreme Court's treatment not only of houses of worship, but of religious non-profits, schools, businesses, and student groups at public universities as well. I argue that the protection of religious institutions should concern all citizens because, …
-
The Supreme Court and labor policy: A rational choice perspective
The role that the United States Supreme Court has played in the development of public policy in general, and labor policy in particular, has been the subject of substantial research. Most of this research, however, has been mainly normative, with little attention been paid to the political context …
-
A More Global Court? Judicial Transnationalism and the U.S. Supreme Court
<p>For many decades, Supreme Court justices and legal scholars have argued over the validity of different tools in constitutional interpretation, including social science data, public opinion and, most recently, laws and standards of decency from abroad. Although several of those currently on the …
Page 1 of 23