Before the Civil Rights Revolution: The Old Court and Individual Rights

by John Braeman

Overview

There is a broad consensus that 1937 marked a turbaning 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313262050
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/13/1988
Series:	Contributions in Legal Studies , #41
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Individual Rights in a Federal System
The Scope of Constitutionally Protected Rights
The Dilemma of Race
The Criminal Defendant
The Old Court and Individual Rights Reappraised
Bibliography
Index