In this Book
- America's Lone Star Constitution: How Supreme Court Cases from Texas Shape the Nation
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Part I: Texas the Southern State
- 1. The All-White Primary
- pp. 15-27
- 2. After the Voting Rights Act
- pp. 28-44
- Part II: Texas the Western State
- 4. Railroads
- pp. 69-80
- 6. School Finance
- pp. 96-114
- 7. Immigration
- pp. 115-130
- Part III: Texas and Cultural Issues
- 8. Freedom of Speech and the Press
- pp. 135-154
- 9. Freedom of and from Religion
- pp. 155-172
- 10. Abortion
- pp. 173-194
- Part IV: Distinctly Texas
- 11. Prosecuting Consensual Adult Sex
- pp. 199-214
- 12. Capital Punishment
- pp. 215-236
- 13. Tom DeLay’s Mid-Decade Redistricting
- pp. 237-248
- Conclusion
- pp. 249-262
- Index of Supreme Court Cases
- pp. 294-298
- General Index
- pp. 299-310
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520970014
Related ISBN(s)
9780520297807, 9780520297814
MARC Record
OCLC
1019837749
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-16
Language
English
Open Access
No