"Through both historical essays and a timeline of American constitutional history, Constitutional Law in Context helps students understand constitutional law in light of cases, doctrine, constitutional analysis, federalism, and historical context. It covers both structure of government and individual liberty cases, and it includes a substantial chapter on free speech. In addition, the book provides historical context for the cases. The c ..."
"The new one-volume edition of Constitutional Law in Context (down from two volumes) continues to provide historical materials, as well as essays and a timeline that together highlight the organic development of constitutional law. These essays, and additional diagrams, help students understand doctrine and cases. This was among the first constitutional law books to take a historical and contextual approach; that focus remains, complemen ..."
Forging New Freedoms Nativism, Education and the Constitution, 1917-1927 by WilliamG. Ross Hardcover, 285 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-3900-5, ISBN: 0-8032-3900-9
"In several landmark decisions during the mid-1920s, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly expanded the scope of the Constitution's protection of individual freedom by striking down state laws designed to repress or even destroy private and parochial schools. Forging New Freedoms explains the origins of na-tivistic hostility toward German and Japanese Americans, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and other groups whose schools became the object ..."
"During the 1930s the U.S. Supreme Court abandoned its longtime function as an arbiter of economic regulation and assumed its modern role as a guardian of personal liberties. William G. Ross analyzes this turbulent period of constitutional transition and the leadership of one of its central participants in The Chief Justiceship of Charles Evans Hughes, 1930-1941. Tapping into a broad array of primary and secondary sources, Ro ..."
A Muted Fury Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937 (Princeton Legacy Library) by WilliamG. Ross Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2014 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-60505-0, ISBN: 0-691-60505-X
"New York that the free speech and free press clauses of the First Amendment are
binding on the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment.307 The Court gradually nationalized other provisions of the Bill of
Rights, ... of Gitlow, see Marc Lender, Gitlow v. New York: Every Idea an
Incitement (University Press of Kansas, 2012). 308 See Griswold v. Connecticut,
381 U.S. 419 (1965); Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (196 ..."
Princeton Legacy Library A Muted Fury : Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937 by WilliamG. Ross 352 Pages, Published 2014 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6357-0, ISBN: 1-4008-6357-0
"... the Library of Congress, my colleagues Howard F. Walthall and Thomas C.
Berg, and my former colleagues W. Hubert Plummer, and Anthony B. Ching.
Several student research assistants at Cumberland helped with this book. I would
particularly like to thank Ronald Keith Thompson, who worked on this project for
more than a year during its early stages, and Christopher Lee George, Mary
Margaret Bailey, Lyle D. Griffin, and Jane Hauth, ..."
A Muted Fury Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937 (Princeton Legacy Library) by WilliamG. Ross Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-63403-6, ISBN: 0-691-63403-3