Supreme Court in Quest of Identity
Title | Supreme Court in Quest of Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Gobind Das |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780897717601 |
Supreme Court in Quest of Identity
Title | Supreme Court in Quest of Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Gobinda Dāsa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 485 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Judicial review |
ISBN | 9788170126904 |
Quest for Identity
Title | Quest for Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Randall Bennett Woods |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 2005-03-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781139444262 |
Quest for Identity is a survey of the American experience from the close of World War II, through the Cold War and 9/11, to the present. It helps students understand postwar American history through a seamless narrative punctuated with accessible analyses. Randall Woods addresses and explains the major themes that punctuate the period: the Cold War, the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements, and other great changes that led to major realignments of American life. While political history is emphasized, Woods also discusses in equal measure cultural matters and socio-economic problems. Dramatic new patterns of immigration and migration characterized the period as much as the counterculture, the growth of television and the Internet, the interstate highway system, rock and roll, and the exploration of space. The pageantry, drama, irony, poignancy and humor of the American journey since World War II are all here.
Judges of the Supreme Court of India
Title | Judges of the Supreme Court of India PDF eBook |
Author | George H. Gadbois, Jr |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 2011-05-02 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199088381 |
Despite the critical role played by the Supreme Court of India, the lives of the judges have never been studied before. This seminal book presents biographical essays for each of the first ninety-three judges who served on the Court from 1950 through mid-1989. The essays in the book are based on interviews the author conducted with sixty-four of the sixty-eight judges who were alive in the 1980s, and on meetings and correspondence with family members or relatives, friends, and associates of the deceased judges. An attempt is made to account for why certain judges rather than others were chosen, the selection criteria employed and, to the extent possible in a secretive selection environment, to identify those who selected them. It concludes with a collective portrait of these judges, paying particular attention to changes in their background characteristics—fathers' occupation, education, pre-SCI career, caste, religion, state of birth, and region, over four decades. The essays also embrace their post-retirement activities.
United States Supreme Court Reports/digest
Title | United States Supreme Court Reports/digest PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1004 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama
Title | Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Alabama. Supreme Court |
Publisher | |
Pages | 744 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Laws reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |
The Future of Liberal Revolution
Title | The Future of Liberal Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Ackerman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0300158084 |
Since 1989, the Cold War has ended, new nations have emerged in Eastern Europe, and revolutionary struggles to establish liberal ideals have been waged against repressive governments throughout the world. Will the promise of liberalism be realized? What can liberals do to make the most of their opportunities and construct enduring forms of political order? In this important and timely book, a leading political theorist discusses the possibility of liberal democracy in Western and Eastern Europe and offers practical suggestions for its realization. Bruce Ackerman begins by sketching the challenges faced a Western Europe free for the first time in half a century to determine its own fate without the constant intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union. Unless decisive steps are taken, this moment of promise can degenerate into a new cycle of nationalist power struggle. Revolutionary action is now required to build the foundations of a democratic federal Europe—a union strong enough to keep the peace and to combat the threat of local tyrannies. Ackerman next considers Eastern Europe and discusses fundamental problems overlooked in the rush to build market economies there. He points out that leading countries—including Poland, Hungary, and Russia—have yet to establish new constitutions, contenting themselves instead with hasty amendments to old Communist documents. This is a great mistake, says Ackerman, for there is an urgent need to constitutionalize liberal revolution, and the window of opportunity for doing this is far smaller than many people realize. Neither judicial efforts to punish collaborators with the old regimes and to redress wrongs done to their victims nor the judicial activism now sweeping Eastern Europe should take priority over the formulation of democratically legitimated constitutions. Ackerman concludes by considering the impact of 1989 on South Africa, Latin America, and the United States, exploring how decisive liberal action throughout the world can help to expand the range of functioning constitutional democracies and recover liberalism's lost revolutionary heritage. .