The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas Kiel Daniel
The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas Kiel Daniel Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of…
Specifikacia The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas Kiel Daniel
The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas Kiel Daniel
Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous. In The Transition, this most significant transition from 1953 to the present is explored through the lives and writings of the first two African American justices on Court, touching on the lasting consequences for understandings of American citizenship as well as the central currents of Black political thought over the past century.In their lives, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas experienced the challenge of living and learning in a world that had enslaved their relatives and that continued to subjugate Not only did it shift the ideological balance on the Court; it was inextricably entangled with the persistent American dilemma of race.