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• Brown and Lawrence (and Goodridge).(historic rulings and how judicial decisionmaking influences social reform movements)

  - 2005-12-01

  TABLE OF CONTENTS I. WHY BROWN AND LAWRENCE WERE HARD CASES II. COURT AS VANGUARD OR LAGGARD? III. JUDICIAL STRATEGIZING--EVADING THE MARRIAGE ISSUE IV. CONSEQUENCES A. Brown's Backlash...

  Tags: Council, Democratic Party, judge, M., Massachusetts, Ohio, president, Republican, Robert, senator, South, Sullivan, Texas, The Library of Congress, U.S., violence, Virginia

• James Monroe and John Adams: an unlikely "friendship".(Biography)

  - 2005-09-22

  RECENT HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP on the political culture of the early United States has turned from analyzing ideologies and issues to examining the personalities and motivations of the first party leaders. Within a framework often termed the "republican paradigm," an incongruous mixture of conservative, deferential, communal, ...

  Tags: Boston, France, friendship, Government, president, Republic, Republican, Richard, SOFTWARE, Taxes, The Library of Congress, U.S., U.S. Congress, Virginia, Wood

• When the people spoke, what did they say? the election of 1936 and the Ackerman thesis.(Bruce Ackerman)(Moments of Change: Transformation in American Constitutionalism)

  - 1999-06-01

  Bruce Ackerman in We the People: Transformations presents a controversial analysis of the Presidential election of 1936 and the surrounding constitutional controversy concerning New Deal legislation. His assertion that the populace acted to change constitutional law through the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is not supported by evidence and has...

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