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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ball, Howard, 1937- Of power and right. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 (OCoLC)707601183 |
Named Person: | Hugo LaFayette Black; William O Douglas; Hugo LaFayette Black; William O Douglas |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Howard Ball; Phillip J Cooper |
ISBN: | 0195046129 9780195046120 |
OCLC Number: | 123224535 |
Description: | 390 pages |
Responsibility: | Howard Ball, Phillip J. Cooper. |
Abstract:
Ball and Cooper analyze the U.S. Supreme Court and compare its two major justices: Black and Douglas, and their positions and behaviors. Black and Douglas had a close personal, symbiotic relationship, but they held different conceptions of society. Black's views were based on the democratic power of the people to govern, while Douglas saw the primacy of liberty and individual rights as limiting the state's ability to impose restrictions on personal freedoms. The authors view these justices through the changing issues before the Court from the New Deal to the mid-1970s, and describe their opinions on major issues such as due process and racial justice. ISBN 0-19-504612-9 $29.95.
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- Black, Hugo LaFayette, -- 1886-1971.
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