Fabricating Origins - Russell T. McCutcheon
4. High Stakes on the High Court
Fabricating Origins - Russell T. McCutcheon
Mike Graziano [+]
University of Northern Iowa
Michael Graziano specializes in American religious history. He teaches religious studies at the University of Northern Iowa.
Description
In the past few years, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken on a number of high-profile cases, the justices have embraced cases that have high-stakes implications for American law. Though dealing with different issues, each case relied upon appeals to the historical origins of the Constitution—in theory, the supreme law of the land in the United States—in order to determine what rulings should be made in the present.