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33 reviews
William H. Rehnquist

Knopf, 2004

Excellent Historical Review!
Chief Justice Rehnquist is a great historian who focuses his history of the Supreme Court on the cases it has decided. He takes the reader down the path of US history by telling the story fo the Court. He ends the book with a brief few chapters on how the Court operates today, which is extremely insightful. I was taking Con Law I at the time I read this book and it helped put the cases I ...

All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime

16 reviews
William H. Rehnquist

Vintage, 2000

Brilliant and prescient
Rehnquist wrote this before Sept 11, but it is a book that has added meaning today. Mostly the Chief Justice focuses on the suspecnsion of Habeas Corpus by ABraham Lincoln and its ramifications for Civil Liberties and the abuse of them during war time. This is not a lively account, but it is accurate, well thought out and makes for interesting reading, having added strength of authority by ...

Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876

10 reviews
William H. Rehnquist

Knopf, 2004

Broader than just the 1876 election, but that's no condemnation
This book, as it happens, came to my eyes just after I read another book also discussing the 1876 election, by Roy Morris, entitled "Fraud of the Century" (which I have also reviewed). The books could not have been more different. Morris' book is a partisan polemic who uses his book on the 1876 election as a way to criticize the result on the 2000 election, which he considers to be "stolen," just ...

The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is

2 reviews
William H. Rehnquist

William Morrow & Co (P), 1988

A good book for laymen
In this book, Chief Justice Rehnquist describes what the Court was like in its early years, includes some of the personal experiences he had with the Court as a young law clerk, and touches briefly on how the Court works today (or, in 1989). Primarily written to non-lawyers, Rehnquist's book would be of most value to common citizens wishing to know a little more about the Supreme Court. ...

Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson

13 reviews
William H. Rehnquist

William Morrow & Co., 1999

A Jewel of a Book
This book is much more than an account of the two major impeachments in U.S. history. The bulk of the book consists of a remarkably well-written history lesson covering the period of 1775 to the 1868 Johnson impeachment trial. The last part of the book then discusses the lessons to be learned from these two impeachment efforts. The 1805 impeachment trial of Justice Chase, a Federalist judge, ...

Black, White and Brown: The Landmark School Desegregation Case in Retrospect

CQ Press, 2004

A Publication of the Supreme Court Historical Society Preface by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist Few decisions in constitutional law have had as dramatic an impact on American life as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954). This collection of essays published by the Supreme Court Historical Society and CQ Press to commemorate Brown's 50th anniversary, captures the complex history and legacy of the decision that changed public ...

Contemporary theories of rights.: An article from: Stanford Law Review
William H. Rehnquist

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from Stanford Law Review, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 27864 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Contemporary theories of rights. Author: William ...