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Kevin J. McMahonPublication Details
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By appointing a majority of rights-based liberals deferential to presidential power, Roosevelt ensured that the Supreme Court would be receptive to civil rights claims, especially when those claims had the support of the executive branch. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. — (Franklin Delano), — 1882-1945 — Views on race
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. — (Franklin Delano), — 1882-1945 — Relations with African Americans
- United States. — Supreme Court — History — 20th century
- African Americans — Civil rights — History — 20th century
- African Americans — Legal status, laws, etc. — History — 20th century
- Segregation in education — Law and legislation — United States — History — 20th century
- United States — Race relations — Political aspects
- United States — Politics and government — 1933-1945
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Contents
- 1. Introduction: The Day They Drove Old Dixie Down
- 2. The Incongruities of Reform: Rights-Centered Liberalism and Legal Realism in the Early New Deal Years
- 3. FDR’s Constitutional Vision and the Defeat of the Court-Packing Plan: The Modern Presidency and the Enemies of Institutional Reform
- 4. "Approving Legislation for the People, Preserving Liberties - Almost Rewriting Laws": The Politics of Creating the Roosevelt Court
- 5. A Constitutional Purge: Southern Democracy, Lynch Law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department
- 6. The Commitment Continues: Truman, Eisenhower, and the Civil Rights Decisions
- 7. Conclusion: The Road the Court Trod
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- 0226500888
- 0226500861
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