The birth of the modern constitution : the United States Supreme Court, 1941-1953 / William M. Wiecek.

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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United States. -- Supreme Court. -- History.

Constitutional history -- United States.

United States. -- Politics and government -- History.

Part I: The Roosevelt Court 1. American public law in 1941

2. A new court

3. Carolene Products (1938): prism of the Stone Court

Part II: First Amendment freedoms: 4. Freedom of speech in the Stone Court

5. Freedom of speech in the Vinson Court

6. The free exercise of religion

7. The establishment of religion

Part III: World War Two and the Constitution: 8. Total war and the Constitution

9. Military courts and treason

10. Silent leges: Japanese internment

11. National authority during and after the war

12. The Truman Court

13. American jurisprudence after the war: "Reason called law"

14. The problem of incorporation

15. Adamson v. California (1947): prism of the Vinson Court

Part V: The Cold War: 16. Anticommunism and the Cold War: Dennis v. United States

17. The Cold War cases

Part VI: Civil rights: 18. Civil rights and the Stone Court

19. Civil rights and the Vinson Court.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0521848202

xvii, 732 p. : ill.