Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia (American Law and Society)
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415930197 | edition 2001 | PDF | 1128 pages | 3 mb
Johnson (history, Univ. of Northern Iowa), who has written several books on the history of U.S. law, including The Struggle for Student Rights, here uses a scholarly analysis of both state and national cases to show how the legal system affects our lives. Approximately a fifth of the 201 essays are new to this revised second edition, which follows the first by a decade. The essays, which vary in length depending upon the significance of their subjects, focus on five main categories: crime and criminal law; governmental organization, power, and procedure...