Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court II

by Maureen Harrison

Book Overview

Volume II of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on slavery, womens suffrage, Japanese-American concentration camps, bible reading in the public schools, the book banned in Boston, rights of the accused, the death penalty, homosexuality, offensive speech, and the right to die.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962801429
• ISBN13: 9780962801426
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Excellent Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

The basic decision

This is part of a series that provides readers with the landmark case of a particular area of American life. From the front cover of each book, the reader knows what areas are being covered in each book. For each entry, the authors give a brief summary of the context and procedural posture of each case (what courts the case went through to get to the Supreme Court). Next, is an abridged version of the court's opinion. In some cases, we also get a part of the dissent. Reading what the court actually said is very interesting, and the abridgment hasn't hurt the flow at all. Further, the authors provide a bibliography so that the reader can research further into an particular case in the book. This particular edition has the following cases in order of appearance. Scott v. Sandford (the Dred Scott case), Minor v. Happersett, United States v. Anthony, Korematsu v. United States, Abington School District v. Shempp, "Fanny Hill" v. Massachusetts, Miranda v. Arizona, Furman v. Georgia, Bowers v. Hardwick, Hustler v. Falwell, Cruzan v. Missouri, and In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan. I would recommend this book as a good summary of what the court said in the court's own words on some of the most important cases in American history.