West's Encyclopedia of American Law, Band 1Thomson/Gale, 2005 - 476 Seiten West's Encyclopedia of American Law contains a comprehensive overview of American law in 13-volumes covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law. Including 5,000 entries that range from brief definitions of legal jargon to exhaustive examinations of court-room procedure, from explanations of complex topics such as civil rights to biographies of standout attorneys, from analyses of controversial issues such as gun control to transcripts of crucial Supreme Court decisions. Each entry was written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with the layperson or beginning student in mind.The layout of this edition includes: Entries contain definition and explanatory text The 94 sidebars provide brief highlights and add informative details of some facets of main entries while the 89 In Focus pieces complement main entries with details and arguments on interesting, important, or controversial issues Two appendix volumes contain over one hundred primary documents, including: milestone Supreme Court decisions & briefs; foundations of U.S. law; civil rights laws and commentary; presidential speeches; and scholarly essaysTopics in this edition include: Abandonment Absentee voting Defamation Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty Internet Fraud Movie rating Patent and Tradem Roman Law Martin Van Buren And much more |
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... constitutional lan- guage While the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was mov- ing through the two Houses of Congress , the Joint Committee of Fifteen was engaged in the task of drafting a constitutional amendment as a part of a program for the ...
... constitutional lan- guage While the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was mov- ing through the two Houses of Congress , the Joint Committee of Fifteen was engaged in the task of drafting a constitutional amendment as a part of a program for the ...
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... constitutional theory of the country . In both language and form , Section One was the distillation of basic constitutional and legal theories long understood and voiced by leaders in a Congress upon which history had cast both the ...
... constitutional theory of the country . In both language and form , Section One was the distillation of basic constitutional and legal theories long understood and voiced by leaders in a Congress upon which history had cast both the ...
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... constitutional rights of the defendant . " " Each case must largely turn upon its own facts , and the court must examine all the cir- cumstances surrounding the taking of the statement in determining whether it is volun- tary and ...
... constitutional rights of the defendant . " " Each case must largely turn upon its own facts , and the court must examine all the cir- cumstances surrounding the taking of the statement in determining whether it is volun- tary and ...
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EDUCATION OF TOPEKA | 2 |
Memorandum Decision of the Supreme Court June 8 1953 | 33 |
Opinion of the Supreme Court May 17 1954 | 130 |
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