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Glass and Gavel - Nancy Maveety

Glass and Gavel

The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol

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Buch | Hardcover
384 Seiten
2018
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1198-7 (ISBN)
CHF 59,95 inkl. MwSt
Noted legal expert Nancy Maveety has written the first book devoted to alcohol in the nation’s highest court, The US Supreme Court. She shows that what the justices do and say about alcohol provides important lessons about their times, our times, and our “constitutional cocktail” of limited government power and individual rights.
In Glass and Gavel, noted legal expert Nancy Maveety has written the first book devoted to alcohol in the nation’s highest court of law, the United States Supreme Court.

Combining an examination of the justices’ participation in the social use of alcohol across the Court’s history with a survey of the Court’s decisions on alcohol regulation, Maveety illustrates the ways in which the Court has helped to construct the changing culture of alcohol. “Intoxicating liquor” is one of the few things so plainly material to explicitly merit mention, not once, but twice, in the amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Maveety shows how much of our constitutional law—Supreme Court rulings on the powers of government and the rights of individuals—has been shaped by our American love/hate relationship with the bottle and the barroom.

From the tavern as a judicial meeting space, to the bootlegger as both pariah and patriot, to the individual freedom issue of the sobriety checkpoint—there is the Supreme Court, adjudicating but also partaking in the temper(ance) of the times. In an entertaining and accessible style, Maveety shows that what the justices say and do with respect to alcohol provides important lessons about their times, our times, and our “constitutional cocktail” of limited governmental power and individual rights.

Nancy Maveety is professor of political science at Tulane University, specializing in U.S. Supreme Court studies, judicial decision making, and comparative judicial politics.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 236 mm
Gewicht 640 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken Getränke
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-5381-1198-5 / 1538111985
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-1198-7 / 9781538111987
Zustand Neuware
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