America's Lone Star Constitution (eBook)

How Supreme Court Cases from Texas Shape the Nation

Lucas A. Powe (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
320 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97001-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: TEXAS THE SOUTHERN STATE
1. The All-White Primary
2. After the Voting Rights Act
3. From Discrimination to Affirmative Action

PART II: TEXAS THE WESTERN STATE
4. Railroads
5. Oil
6. School Finance
7. Immigration

PART III: TEXAS AND CULTURAL ISSUES
8. Freedom of Speech and the Press
9. Freedom of and from Religion
10. Abortion

PART IV: DISTINCTLY TEXAS
11. Prosecuting Consensual Adult Sex
12. Capital Punishment
13. Tom DeLay’s Mid-Decade Redistricting

Conclusion
Notes
List of Cases
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Capital punishment • civil liberties • Constitution • constitutional law • constitutional litigation • doctrinal areas • History • legal scholar • major issues • national divides • ordinary politics • Politics • Poverty • railroad regulations • School finance • Schooling • Supreme Court • supreme court historian • Texas • texas inspired law • texas law • Voting rights
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97001-2 / 0520970012
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97001-4 / 9780520970014