| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 320 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction; 1 Roosevelt's Shadow; 2 Judging the Image of New Deal Court Judging; 3 The Public/Private Distinction and the Minimum Wage; 4 From Adkins to Nebbia; 5 The Minimum Wage Cases Revisited; 6 The Liberal Dilemma; 7 Associationalism Ascendant; 8 Doctrinal Synergies; 9 A Stream of Legal Consciousness; 10 Catching the Current; 11 The Persistence of Memory; 12 The Struggle with Judicial Supremacy; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Rethinking the New Deal Court challenges the prevailing account of the New Deal era Supreme Court, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abandoned jurisprudential positions it had staked out in such areas as substantive due process and commerce clause doctrine. In this view, the impetus for such a dramatic reversal was provided by external political pressures manifested in FDR's landslide victory in the 1936 election, and by the subsequent Court-packing crisis. Author Barry Cushman, by contrast, discounts the role that political pressure played in securing this "constitutional revolution." Instead, he reorients study of the New Deal Court by focusing attention on the internal dynamics of doctrinal development and the role of New Dealers in seizing opportunities presented by doctrinal change. Recasting this central story in American constitutional development as a chapter in the history of ideas rather than simply an episode in the history of politics, Cushman offers a thoroughly researched and carefully argued study that recharacterizes the mechanics by which laissez-faire constitutionalism unraveled and finally collapsed during FDR's reign.; Identifying previously unseen connections between various lines of doctrine, Cushman charts the manner in which Nebbia v. New York's abandonment of the distinction between public and private enterprise hastened the demise of the doctrinal structure in which that distinction had played a central role |
| Analysis |
Constitutional history - United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-308) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Constitutional history -- United States.
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New Deal, 1933-1939.
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New Deal.
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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New Deal, 1933-1939
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Constitutional history
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Economic policy
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Supreme Court (VS)
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New Deal.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140035
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423741374 |
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9781423741374 |
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019535401X |
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9780195354010 |
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1280600225 |
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9781280600227 |
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9781602562103 |
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1602562105 |
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9786610600229 |
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6610600228 |
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