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Disorder from the Courts
MOSCOW – In the notorious case of Dred Scott v. Sandford in , US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that African-Americans were not and could not be citizens of the United States, and that the Missouri Compromise – which had created an (admittedly uneasy) equilibrium between slave and free states – was unconstitutional. Many consider the ruling the spark that ignited the American Civil War. The US Supreme Court seems not to have learned from its mistakes.
The court’s power to upend politics was not always obvious. In , when US Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that legislation enacted by Georgia to allow the seizure of Cherokee lands violated federal treaties, President Andrew Jackson reportedly spat, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.” In fact, Jackson may not have said it, but he and the state of Georgia did proceed to ignore the ruling.
And yet, globally, judges have probably done as much as any band of revolutionaries to disrupt political systems – in the process often undermining, rather than advancing, the cause of justice. The conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus on concocted espionage charges divided France for a generation, fatally weakening the country in the run-up to World War I (in which Dr
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European socialism : a concise history with documents [Second ed.] , , ,
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Abbreviations
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Socialist Ideals and Imaginings,–
Socialist Ideology amid Reform andRevolution, –
Socialism in the Era of Mass Politics,–
The Birth of Communismand the Transformation of Socialism,–
Socialism and Communism duringthe Cold War, –
The Retreat and Reemergence ofSocialism, to the Crisis of
Socialism, Populism, and theAuthoritarian Challenge
Further Reading
Index
About the Author
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European Socialism
European Socialism A Concise History with Documents, Second Edition William Smaldone
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