The Constitution, that delicate balance / Fred W. Friendly, Martha J.H. Elliott.
"Landmark cases that shaped the Constitution."--Jacket subtitle. Includes the full text of the Constitution.
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New York :
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c1984.
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Table of Contents:
- Barron's Wharf: First test of the Bill of Rights
- Seventeen Words: Quiet revolution of the Fourteenth Amendment
- Minnesota Rag: Newspaper that gave new meaning th Freedom of the Press
- Myth about the Bay of Pigs: Freedom of the press and National Security
- Protecting "The thought that we hate": Freedom of speech and the Right of Peaceable Assembly
- Does money talk?: Elections, contributions, and speech
- God and the classroom: Free exercise of religion vs establishment of religion
- Knock at the door: How the supreme Court created a rule to enforce the Fourth Amendment
- Crime and its aftershock: Fair trial vs free press
- Willie Francis' two trips to the chair: Punishment and the death penalty
- Defense of last resort: Insanity plea
- Umpiring "harmless, empty shadows": Right of privacy
- Bakke and the equal protection clause: Affirmative action vs reverse discrimination
- "Give me your tired, your poor ...": Does the Fourteenth Amendment protect illegal aliens?
- Nation of states: States' rights vs national supremacy
- Sacking of Greytown: Power to make war
- Constitution of the United States.