America's Lone Star Constitution

How Supreme Court Cases from Texas Shape the Nation
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29781-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powe, Lucas A.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: TEXAS THE SOUTHERN STATE
1. The All-White Primary
2. After the Voting Rights Act
3. From Discrimination to Affirmative Action

PART II: TEXAS THE WESTERN STATE
4. Railroads
5. Oil
6. School Finance
7. Immigration

PART III: TEXAS AND CULTURAL ISSUES
8. Freedom of Speech and the Press
9. Freedom of and from Religion
10. Abortion

PART IV: DISTINCTLY TEXAS
11. Prosecuting Consensual Adult Sex
12. Capital Punishment
13. Tom DeLay’s Mid-Decade Redistricting

Conclusion
Notes
List of Cases
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lucas A. Powe, Jr. is Anne Green Regents Chair in the School of Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas. He is the author of five previous books, including The Warren Court and American Politics.