The Vinson Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy Book

Pt. 1	Justices, rulings, and legacy	1
1	The Vinson court and the period	3
	Truman succeeds Roosevelt	4
	Ending the war	5
	The United Nations	6
	Reconversion	7
	The Cold War begins	8
	The fair deal and the 80th Congress	9
	The 1948 election	14
	Foreign policy, the Truman doctrine, and the Marshall plan	16
	The Korean war	19
	The communist issues	20
	The Steel Seizure Case	23
	The 1952 election	24
	Assembling the Vinson court	25
2	The justices	35
	Frederick Moore Vinson	36
	Hugo Lafayette Black	44
	Stanley Forman Reed	49
	Felix Frankfurter	53
	William Orville Douglas	60
	Frank Murphy	66
	Robert Houghwout Jackson	69
	Wiley Blount Rutledge	73
	Harold Hitz Burton	77
	Tom Campbell Clark	80
	Sherman Minton	83
3	Major decisions	89
	Aftermath of World War II	90
	Presidential power	93
	The Rosenberg case	98
	Loyalty of government employees	102
	The communist issue and free speech	105
	Local government restrictions on speech	111
	Group libel	115
	The first amendment and picketing	116
	The Vinson court and labor rights	118
	Incorporation	127
	Free exercise of religion	128
	Establishment of religion	130
	Adamson v. California and the incorporation debate	136
	Due process rights	140
	The fourth amendment	142
	Equal protection cases	148
4	Legacy and impact	161
	The transformation of the court	162
	Equal protection	164
	Freedom of speech	166
	Internal security	170
	Freedom of religion	172
	Incorporation	175
	Rights of the accused	176
	The fourth amendment : search warrants	178
	The fourth amendment : wiretapping	179
	The exclusionary rule	180
	The sixth amendment : the right to counsel	181
	The fifth amendment : the privilege against self-incrimination	182
	Criminal procedure in the Burger and Rehnquist courts	185
	Apportionment	186
	The Steel Seizure Case	191
Pt. 2	Reference materials	195