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The Constitution in crisis times, 1918-1969
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- Summary
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Assesses fifty years of constitutional development against a background of shifting national moods and public pressures.
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- Creator
- by Paul L. Murphy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Harper and Row, [1971]
- ©1972
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 570 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0060131187, 9780060131180
- OCLC
- ocm00251187, ocm00251187
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-541) and index.
- The status of law and the Constitution in Post-World War I America -- Majority legal assumptions and their impact in the Twenties -- Normalcy and freedom: the awakening concern for national standards -- The Depression and the emergence of legal realism -- Constitutional crisis over controlling a national economy -- Big government and the rights of the individual -- Total-war crisis and its impact on the Constitution -- The Fair Deal and judicial pragmatism, 1946-50 -- The Korean Crisis and the Cold War Constitution -- Eisenhower quiescence and the Warren court -- The New Frontier and the Constitution as an instrument for social change -- The Great Society, Vietnam, and the Warren court's concluding activism -- The historical implications of the revolution in public law