The Supremes' Greatest Hits The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life |
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| Author:
| Trachtman, Michael G. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4027-4107-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Publisher: | Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $9.95 |
Book Description:
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Can the government seize your house in order to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what you can do to your own body? Why are you allowed to copy songs on a CD, but not music files from the Internet? The answers to those questions come from the Supreme Court--and its rulings have shaped American life and justice. Here are 34 of the most significant issues it has grappled with--from equal rights to privacy rights, from the limits of speech to the boundaries between...
More Description Can the government seize your house in order to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what you can do to your own body? Why are you allowed to copy songs on a CD, but not music files from the Internet? The answers to those questions come from the Supreme Court--and its rulings have shaped American life and justice. Here are 34 of the most significant issues it has grappled with--from equal rights to privacy rights, from the limits of speech to the boundaries between church and state. Many of these cases read like thrillers...right down to their cliff-hanging endings. Among the most intriguing: the Dred Scott decision, Miranda v. Arizona, Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, and Bush v. Gore.