The Vinson court : justices, rulings, and legacy /
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| Author / Creator: | Belknap, Michal R. |
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| Imprint: | Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2004. |
| Description: | xiv, 290 p. : ports ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ABC-CLIO Supreme Court handbooks |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5355215 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Justices, rulings, and legacy
- 1. The Vinson court and the period
- Truman succeeds Roosevelt
- Ending the war
- The United Nations
- Reconversion
- The Cold War begins
- The fair deal and the 80th Congress
- The 1948 election
- Foreign policy, the Truman doctrine, and the Marshall plan
- The Korean war
- The communist issues
- The Steel Seizure Case
- The 1952 election
- Assembling the Vinson court
- 2. The justices
- Frederick Moore Vinson
- Hugo Lafayette Black
- Stanley Forman Reed
- Felix Frankfurter
- William Orville Douglas
- Frank Murphy
- Robert Houghwout Jackson
- Wiley Blount Rutledge
- Harold Hitz Burton
- Tom Campbell Clark
- Sherman Minton
- 3. Major decisions
- Aftermath of World War II
- Presidential power
- The Rosenberg case
- Loyalty of government employees
- The communist issue and free speech
- Local government restrictions on speech
- Group libel
- The first amendment and picketing
- The Vinson court and labor rights
- Incorporation
- Free exercise of religion
- Establishment of religion
- Adamson v. California and the incorporation debate
- Due process rights
- The fourth amendment
- Equal protection cases
- 4. Legacy and impact
- The transformation of the court
- Equal protection
- Freedom of speech
- Internal security
- Freedom of religion
- Incorporation
- Rights of the accused
- The fourth amendment : search warrants
- The fourth amendment : wiretapping
- The exclusionary rule
- The sixth amendment : the right to counsel
- The fifth amendment : the privilege against self-incrimination
- Criminal procedure in the Burger and Rehnquist courts
- Apportionment
- The Steel Seizure Case
- Pt. 2. Reference materials.
