Browsing W & L Historic Theses by Subject "United States. Supreme Court"

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    • Justice Stanley F. Reed and the American Constitution 

      Chase, Hal Scripps
      This paper is not a eulogy nor a polemic. Its purpose is neither to praise nor condemn the life and work of Justice Stanley Reed. Its aspiration is rather that of a portrait "warts and all" of a man who occupied for nineteen ...

    • Plessy v. Ferguson: The Culmination of a Judicial Avalanche 

      Allen, Everette Garrett, III
      The Plessy decision represented the final capitulation of the Union to racism. Beginning with the Slaughterhouse decision in 1873, the Supreme Court gradually whittled away the rights of blacks in a series of decisions ...