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Equality by Statute : Legal Controls Over Group Discrimination / Morroe Berger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1952]Copyright date: ©1952Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231910309
  • 9780231881708
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.4
LOC classification:
  • KF4749 .B47 1952
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Civil Rights Today and During the Reconstruction Era -- II. The Supreme Court, 1868–1937: Buttressing the Caste Order -- III. The Supreme Court, 1937–1950: Undermining the Caste Order -- IV. The New York State Law Against Discrimination: Operation and Administration -- V. Law and the Control of Prejudice and Discrimination -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Cases -- Index
Summary: Describes and evaluates some of the legal developments from the Reconstruction period to the 1950s on both federal and state levels, and attempts to formulate some general principles on the relation between law and custom, public opinion and the mores, and to evaluate the efficacy of law as a means of controlling prejudice and discrimination.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231881708

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Civil Rights Today and During the Reconstruction Era -- II. The Supreme Court, 1868–1937: Buttressing the Caste Order -- III. The Supreme Court, 1937–1950: Undermining the Caste Order -- IV. The New York State Law Against Discrimination: Operation and Administration -- V. Law and the Control of Prejudice and Discrimination -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Cases -- Index

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Describes and evaluates some of the legal developments from the Reconstruction period to the 1950s on both federal and state levels, and attempts to formulate some general principles on the relation between law and custom, public opinion and the mores, and to evaluate the efficacy of law as a means of controlling prejudice and discrimination.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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