Summary of Geoffrey R. Stone & David A. Strauss's Democracy and Equality

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The case of Brown v. Board of Education is perhaps the most important Supreme Court decision in American history. It held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids racial segregation in public schools.
#2 Segregation was a way of life in many southern states, and it was only starting to change in the North, especially in the border states, during the early 1950s.
#3 The Supreme Court ruled in favor of integration in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, but it took a decade for schools to be fully desegregated. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made the difference, and the rate of desegregation increased quickly after its passage.
#4 The aftermath of Brown showed how difficult it is for courts alone to root out entrenched practices, despite massive resistance, without the help of Congress and the executive branch.

Sujets

• Droit public
• Constitutional
• Droit et juridique
• Law

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 17 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822511613
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Geoffrey R. Stone & David A. Strauss's Democracy and Equality
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#1

The case of Brown v. Board of Education is perhaps the most important Supreme Court decision in American history. It held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids racial segregation in public schools.

#2

Segregation was a way of life in many southern states, and it was only starting to change in the North, especially in the border states, during the early 1950s.

#3

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of integration in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, but it took a decade for schools to be fully desegregated. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made the difference, and the rate of desegregation increased quickly after its passage.

#4

The aftermath of Brown showed how difficult it is for courts alone to root out entrenched practices, despite massive resistance, without the help of Congress and the executive branch.

#5

The Warren Court was tasked with dismantling Jim Crow segregation, which it did, and expanding the rights of civil rights demonstrators.

#6

The clash between the Supreme Court and President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s was a formative event for the justices of the Warren Court and their generation of lawyers. The pre–New Deal Court had both acted improperly and endangered its own legitimacy when it defied the democratically elected branches of government.

#7

The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education was a major step toward defining the role of the court in American government. It was a commitment to democratic politics, and it allowed the court to insist that democracy must operate in a fair and open manner.

#8

The debate between originalism and living constitutionalism has become prominent in American law since the 1960s. While many originalists have tried to escape the lack of support in the original understandings for the decision they are asked to reach, it remains one of the most compelling challenges to originalism.

#9

The Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education26 was decided on the same day as Bolling v. Sharpe, and it too relied on the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to declare school segregation unconstitutional.

#10

The case of Brown vs. Board of Education illustrates the genius of America’s constitutional system.