Glass and Gavel (eBook)

The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol

Nancy Maveety (Autor)

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2018
384 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1199-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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 lawSupreme Court rulings on the powers of government and the rights of individualshas 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 checkpointthere 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.

Autor

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: alcohol culture • Alexander Hamilton • Benjamin Rush • Charles Hughes • chief justice • Dred Scott • Earl Warren • Edward White • Fred Vinson • George Washington • Harlan Stone • Individual Rights • John Jay • John Marshall • John Pickering • John Roberts • John Rutledge • Melville Fuller • mint julep • Oliver Ellsworth • Prohibition • Roberts Court • Roger Brooke Taney • Rum • Salmon P. Chase • Temperance • The Burger Court • The Chase Court • The Constitution of the United States • The Eighteenth Amendment • The Federalist Papers • The Fuller Court • The Hughes Court • The Marshall Court • The Rehnquist Court • The Stone Court • The Sugar Act • The Supreme Court • The Taft Court • The Taney Court • The Triangular Trade • The Twenty-First Amendment • The Vinson Court • The Waite Court • the Warren Court • The White Court • Thomas Jefferson • Waite Morrison • Warren Burger • Whiskey • William Rehnquist • William Taft
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-1199-3 / 1538111993
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1199-4 / 9781538111994