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Before the Civil Rights Revolution: The Old Court and Individual Rights: 41 (Contributions in Legal Studies) - Hardcover

John Braeman

 
9780313262050: Before the Civil Rights Revolution: The Old Court and Individual Rights: 41 (Contributions in Legal Studies)

Synopsis

There is a broad consensus that 1937 marked a turning point in the history of the Supreme Court. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the Court's decision-making in the civil liberties/civil rights sphere in the years preceding that watershed. Professor Braeman refutes the widely held assumption that the post-1937 justices were writing upon a largely blank slate in dealing with civil liberties/civil rights issues, arguing instead that much of what the Modern Court has done, when viewed in a long-term perspective, appears as incremental expansions of precedents laid down by the Old Court.

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About the Author

JOHN BRAEMAN is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

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