We the people. 3, The Civil Rights Revolution [electronic resource] / Bruce Ackerman.

Ackerman anchors his discussion in the landmark statutes of the 1960s: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Challenging conventional legal analysis and arguing instead that constitutional politics won the day, he describes the complex interac...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Ackerman, Bruce A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Series:Ackerman, Bruce: We the People ; Volume 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction . Confronting the Twentieth Century
  • PART ONE Defining the Canon
  • CHAPTER 1 Are We A Nation?
  • CHAPTER 2 The Living Constitution
  • CHAPTER 3 The Assassin's Bullet
  • CHAPTER 4 The New Deal Transformed
  • CHAPTER 5 The Turning Point
  • CHAPTER 6 Erasure by Judiciary?
  • PART TWO Landmarks of Reconstruction
  • CHAPTER 7 Spheres Of Humiliation
  • CHAPTER 8 Spheres Of Calculation
  • CHAPTER 9 Technocracy In The Workplace
  • CHAPTER 10 The Breakthrough Of 1968
  • PART THREE Dilemmas of Judicial Leadership
  • CHAPTER 11 Brown's Fate
  • CHAPTER 12 The Switch in Time
  • CHAPTER 13 Spheres of Intimacy
  • CHAPTER 14 Betrayal?
  • Notes
  • Index.