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In the Shadow of the Great Charter
Robert M. Pallitto
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Description for In the Shadow of the Great Charter
The story of the profound influence of Magna Carta on American legal development, especially constitutional doctrine and interpretation. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: LAB; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
In the Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling on whether Guantanamo detainees could be barred from U.S. courts, Justice Anthony Kennedy cited the U.S. Constitution, of course. But he also linked the decision to the Magna Carta. Why would a twenty-first-century judge, even under the extraordinary circumstances of the “war on terror,” invoke a document signed by an English king in the thirteenth century? To address this question, as Robert Pallitto does in this clarifying book, is to probe the history of modern civil liberties, and to explore the process by which judges decide individual rights cases. Pallitto’s work, with its insight ... Read more
In the Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling on whether Guantanamo detainees could be barred from U.S. courts, Justice Anthony Kennedy cited the U.S. Constitution, of course. But he also linked the decision to the Magna Carta. Why would a twenty-first-century judge, even under the extraordinary circumstances of the “war on terror,” invoke a document signed by an English king in the thirteenth century? To address this question, as Robert Pallitto does in this clarifying book, is to probe the history of modern civil liberties, and to explore the process by which judges decide individual rights cases. Pallitto’s work, with its insight ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700620913
SKU
V9780700620913
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About Robert M. Pallitto
Robert M. Pallitto is associate professor of political science at Seton Hall University, USA. He is the author of Torture and State Violence in the United States: A Short Documentary History and, with William G. Weaver, Presidential Secrecy and the Law.
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