Exam 11: Law, Social Change, and the Class Struggle

The refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to allow television cameras behind the "purple curtain," their refusal to grant interviews, and their affected, haughty, and imperious demeanor all contribute to that special impression of priestly:

In which 1937 case did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Wagner Act constitutional?

According to the text, a student of the history and political development of the United States is well advised to study:

In Gibbons v. Ogden, the Marshall Court "set down the classic statement of the doctrine of national authority".

There is a tendency to view law as a _______________ to change because it consists for the most part of norms and customs that have been codified.

What asserts that judges must not place their own interpretations on the U.S. Constitution, even if by adhering to this philosophy the consequences would be personally abhorrent to them?

Norms and customs, almost by definition, are resistant to fracture.

Weber (1968) used the term "authority" to refer to the legitimate power to gain compliance with rules despite the lack of objective means to compel it.

It may be considered that the role of law in social change is to be most often _______________ rather than causative; that is, it serves as a conduit guiding the progress of some reform that is already in the works for other reasons.

What are contracts forced on employees requiring them to promise not to join a union as a condition of employment?

The U.S. Supreme Court became a major catalyst of social change under the leadership of which chief justice from 1953 to 1969?

The United States today is a _______________ stew of many different cultural traditions and customs.

In Hammer v. Dagenhart, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down maximum-hours legislation for bakers who were being forced by employers to work up to sixteen hours each day.

What was the six-month-long armed insurrection among Massachusetts farmers that was led by a Revolutionary War veteran that occurred just prior to the signing of the Constitution in 1787 and is thought to have crystallized the anti-democratic sentiments of the Framers?

In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that under Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, the Court had the final word over all federal and state courts, a decision that was to become the keystone of federal judicial power?

What is social change? How has the law been a cause of social change?

Which clause of the U.S. Constitution, forbidding states to pass any laws "impairing the obligation of contracts," has the U.S. Supreme Court relied heavily upon in its battle to protect the economic elite from the demands of workers?

What functions to legitimize change, to smooth the way, and to grease the squeaky wheels of opposition to change?

Judicial activism is looking for the Framer's "original intent".

According to the text, legal and political equality are natural equalities due to us by virtue of our: