I Dissent

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ISBN: 9780807000366 | 0807000361
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Copyright: 6/1/2008

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If American history can truly be traced through the majority decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases, then what about the dissenting opinions? In issues of race, gender, privacy, workers' rights, and more, would advances have been impeded or failures rectified if the dissenting opinions were in fact the majority opinions?

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Introduction: Why Dissent?	p. xi
"The legislature is entitled to all the deference that is due the judiciary.": Marbury v. Madison, 1803	p. 1
"Experience should teach us wisdom.": McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819	p. 17
"Among those for whom and whose posterity the Constitution was ordained and established.": Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857	p. 31
"To enable the black race to take the rank of mere citizens.": The Civil Rights Cases, 1883	p. 45
"There is no caste here.": Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896	p. 69
"Room for debate and for an honest difference of opinion.": Lochner v. New York, 1905	p. 81
"Men feared witches and burned women.": Whitney v. California, 1927	p. 93
"Almost anything-marriage, birth, death-may in some fashion affect commerce.": National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., 1937	p. 101
"The ugly abyss of racism.": Korematsu v. United States, 1944	p. 113
"Refrain from invidious discriminations.": Goesaert v. Cleary, 1948	p. 127
"Our decision does not end but begins the struggle over segregation.": Brown v. Board of Education, 1954	p. 133
"To attribute, however flatteringly, omnicompetence to judges.": Baker v. Carr, 1962	p. 151
"A sterile metaphor which by its very nature may distort rather than illumine the problems.": Abington School District v. Schempp, 1963	p. 167
"I get nowhere in this case by talk about a constitutional 'right of privacy.'": Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965	p. 179
"That is what this suit is about. Power.": Morrison v. Olson, 1988	p. 191
"Do not believe it.": Lawrence v. Texas, 2003	p. 211
Conclusion	p. 221
Sources and Additional Readings	p. 225
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