Irons, Peter H.

Examines the War Powers Resolution passed during the 1970s that put a sixty-day limit on the president when dispatching troops into combat without congressional approval, and discusses how presidents before and after the resolution have ignored congressional authority and have used military force to fulfill their own objectives.

Approaches the history of the Supreme Court from the vantage point of the people, emphasizing the social, political and constitutional factors that influenced each case.

Profiles sixteen landmark Supreme Court cases in the United States dealing with issues of race, religion, protest, and privacy through the voices of the people who were determined to fight for their rights regardless of the consequences.

Argues that the Supreme Court has undermined the "Brown v. Board of Education" ruling, "resegregating" schools and contributing to racial strife; examines the history of the fight against Jim Crow education and includes interviews with students from the "Brown" case communities at the start of the twenty-first century.

Argues that the Supreme Court has undermined the "Brown v. Board of Education" ruling, "resegregating" schools and contributing to racial strife; examines the history of the fight against Jim Crow education and includes interviews with students from the "Brown" case communities at the start of the twenty-first century.

Chronicles the history of the United States Supreme Court from the first debates over judicial power in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 through the controversial rulings of the 1990s.