Warren Court, 181, 183
bad tendency doctrine and, 111
civil rights demonstrations and, 118
Fourth Amendment and, 26
literacy tests and, 45
Washington, George, 177
in Revolutionary War, 202
Washington State, primary election in, 58
“well-regulated Militia,” in Second Amendment, 14, 23, 24
West Virginia v. Barnette, 183, 232–33n7
Whitney v. California, 111
Wilson, Woodrow, 189, 191
Winthrop, John, 227–28n1
Wolcott, Oliver, 162
woman’s right whether to bear a child, 183
counselors for, 101
First Amendment and, 101
natural law and, 32
women
Nineteenth Amendment and, 35
oppression of, 8
plural marriage and, 146–47
World War I, 195
First Amendment and, 189
leafleting about, 6–7, 189–91
World War II
Communism after, 7
flag saluting in, 183
Japanese internment camps in, 183, 191–92, 195–96
Nazism in, 8, 32
write-in votes, Supreme Court and, 61, 65
Yarborough, Ex parte, 230n9
Yeltsin, Boris, 140
Zelig, Leonard, 207
Zenger, John Peter, 125–26
About the Author
Burt Neuborne is the Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties and the founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. He has served as the national legal director of the ACLU, as special counsel to the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, and as a member of the New York City Human Rights Commission. During his fifty years of public interest practice, Neuborne has participated in more than two hundred cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. He played Jerry Falwell’s lawyer in Miloš Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flynt and was the Court TV commentator for the trial of O.J. Simpson. Neuborne is the author of three scholarly books and more than fifty scholarly articles and has contributed to The Nation. He is married to Helen Redleaf Neuborne. They live in New York.
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