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Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991

By Mark Tushnet

Book information

Year
1997
ISBN
0195093143, 9780195093148, 9781423738619
LCC
KF8745.M34 T87 1997
Open Library ID
OL987430M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17610609 bytes)
Pages
256\257
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was the first African-American Justice. Based on thorough research in the Supreme Court papers of Justice Marshall and others, this book describes Marshall's approach to constitutional law in areas ranging from civil rights and the death penalty to abortion and poverty. It locates the Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991 in a broader socio-political context, showing how the nation's drift toward conservatism affected the Court's debates and decisions.

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