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Supreme Court For Dummies

Supreme Court For Dummies


By Lisa Paddock

ISBN: 978-0-7645-0886-8
Format: Paper
Pages: 384 Pages
Pub. Date: October 2002

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Price: $19.99
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Table of Contents
Introduction.

PART I: "WE'LL TAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPREME COURT".

Chapter 1: Considering the Court of Last Resort.

Chapter 2: Getting to Cert.

Chapter 3: Making a Decision.

PART II: JUDGING THE JUSTICES.

Chapter 4: Make No Mistake, These Justices Are Politicians: The Conformation Contest.

Chapter 5: First Among Equals: The Chief Justice.

Chapter 6: A Touch of Class: Some Notable Justices.

Chapter 7: Rogues Gallery: Some Notorious Justices.

PART III: SETTING PRECEDENTS: CASES THAT COUNT.

Chapter 8: The First Amendment is the First Amendment.

Chapter 9:Due Process: What It Is, and Who Gets It?

Chapter 10: Equal Protection: How Equal Is It?

PART IV: HIGH DRAMA ON THE HIGH COURT.

Chapter 11: Dred Scott and Civil War.

Chapter 12: Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement.

PART V: UNDERSTANDING SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.

Chapter 13: Using the Internet: Your Best Bet.

Chapter 14: The Supreme Court Reporter Is Not a Magazine: Traditional Research.

PART VI: BECOMING A COURT INSIDER.

Chapter 15: Law Clerks: The Worker Bees.

Chapter 16: They Also Serve: Other Court Staff.

PART VII: THE PART OF TENS.

Chapter 17: The Court's Ten Best Decisions.

Chapter 18: The Court's Ten Worst Decisions.

Chapter 19: Ten Ways the Court Has Changed the Course of History.

PART VIII: APPENDIXES.

Appendix A: Common Legal Terms.

Appendix B: Constitution of the United States of America.

Appendix C: Justices of the Supreme Court.

Index.

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