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8 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (112 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.) |
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Portable professor. U.S. history
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Compact discs |
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"Lecture content c2004 by Kermit L. Hall. p2004 by Recorded Books, LLC. This edition 2004 by Barnes & Noble, Inc."--Sound disc surface |
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Course guide includes bibliographical references following lecture notes |
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Course lectures: 1. The judicial power, jurisdiction, and the ages of the Supreme Court -- 2. The establishment of judicial review: Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- 3. Privilege and creative destruction: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837) -- 4. Equality, slavery, and the Supreme Court: Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) -- 5. Native American sovereignty and the Constitution: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903) -- 6. Liberty to contract in the Industrial Age: Lochner v. New York (1905) -- 7. Clear and present danger: Abrams v. United States (1919) -- 8. A switch in time?: West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937) -- 9. Japanese internment and total war: Korematsu v. United States (1944) -- 10. Simple justice: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954, 1955) -- 11. Abortion, women, and equality: Roe v. Wade (1973) -- 12. Presidential immunity and Watergate: United States v. Nixon (1974) -- 13. The boundaries of discrimination: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) -- 14. The ten greatest justices in the history of the Supreme Court |
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A series of 14 lectures discussing crucial U.S. Supreme Court cases that examined the relationship between legal doctrine and social change, decisions which changed contemporary views of the law |
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United States. Supreme Court
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Judicial review -- United States -- History
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Constitutional law -- United States -- History
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Judges -- United States
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Recorded Books, Inc
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Landmark cases of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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