An edition of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr (1994)

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

freedom first

1st Carroll & Graf ed.

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An edition of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr (1994)

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

freedom first

1st Carroll & Graf ed.

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. sat for thirty-four years on the United States Supreme Court. Throughout his tenure on the Court he meticulously examined the body of Constitutional law - and effectively resuscitated its spirit. A champion of minorities and a spokesman for the politically dispossessed, he passionately defended civil rights and strove to bring the nation's disenfranchised into the mainstream of American life. He advanced the political empowerment of American cities and suburbs.

He essentially wrote the modern law of freedom of speech and the press. Justice Brennan's retirement in 1990 occasioned tributes from a host of associates, former law clerks, attorneys, judges, professors, journalists, and friends. The reflections on Brennan in Part I of this volume provide intimate, often humorous glimpses into a generous, warm, open-hearted man who also happened to be an intellectual giant and outstanding jurist.

In Part II the jurisprudence of Justice Brennan is comprehensively surveyed and lucidly discussed by author and Constitutional law professor Roger Goldman. With care he examines - and in layman's terms explains - Brennan's positions on the issues central to the justice's career: the First Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, civil rights, education, abortion, obscenity, and capital punishment.

Eloquent, persuasive, and faithful to his vision, Justice Brennan authored more than a thousand opinions, concurrences, and dissents in the course of his judicial career. Part III of the book offers twelve landmark decisions written by Brennan that show clearly why history will place him beside John Marshall, Louis Brandeis, and Oliver Wendell Holmes as one of the truly great justices in the annals of the United States Supreme Court.

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374

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Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.: freedom first
1994, Carroll & Graf Publishers
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
347.73/2634, B, 347.30735, B
Library of Congress
KF8745.B68 G65 1994, KF8745.B68G65 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 374 p. ;
Number of pages
374

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Open Library
OL1082798M
Internet Archive
justicewilliamjb00gold
ISBN 10
0786700696
LCCN
94006417
OCLC/WorldCat
29913380
Library Thing
1843504
Goodreads
21801

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