{"product_id":"dissent-and-the-supreme-court-its-role-in-the-courts-history-and-the-nations-constitutional-dialogue-paperback","title":"Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelvin I. Urofsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Highly illuminating ... for anyone interested in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American democracy, lawyer and layperson alike.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his major work\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eacclaimed historian and judicial authority Melvin Urofsky examines the great dissents throughout the Court's long history. Constitutional dialogue is one of the ways in which we as a people reinvent and reinvigorate our democratic society. The Supreme Court has interpreted the meaning of the Constitution, acknowledged that the Court's majority opinions have not always been right, and initiated a critical discourse about what a particular decision should mean before fashioning subsequent decisions--largely through the power of dissent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Urofsky shows how the practice grew slowly but steadily, beginning with the infamous and now overturned case of \u003ci\u003eDred Scott v. Sandford\u003c\/i\u003e (1857) during which Chief Justice Roger Taney's opinion upheld slavery and ending with the present age of incivility, in which reasoned dialogue seems less and less possible. Dissent on the court and off, Urofsky argues in this major work, has been a crucial ingredient in keeping the Constitution alive and must continue to be so.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMELVIN I. UROFSKY\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor emeritus of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and was the chair of its history department. He is the editor (with David W. Levy) of the five-volume collection of Louis Brandeis's letters, as well as the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLouis D. Brandeis\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50729416032562,"sku":"9780307741325","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0961\/1608\/0946\/files\/ohjk2MKdKJ9780307741325.webp?v=1765644935","url":"https:\/\/deskinlawfirm.com\/products\/dissent-and-the-supreme-court-its-role-in-the-courts-history-and-the-nations-constitutional-dialogue-paperback","provider":"DLF Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}