The American Supreme Court

The American Supreme Court / Robert G. McCloskey ; revised by Sanford Levinson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCloskey, Robert G. (Robert Green)
Other Authors: Levinson, Sanford, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Edition:5th ed.
Series:Chicago history of American civilization.
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court > History.
Courts of last resort > United States > History.
Constitutional history > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The genesis and nature of judicial power
  • The establishment of the right to decide : 1789-1810
  • The Marshall Court and the shaping of the nation : 1810-1835
  • The court under Taney : the natural history of judicial prestige
  • Constitutional evolution in the Gilded Age : 1865-1900
  • The judiciary and the regulatory state : 1900-1937
  • The court and postwar America : 1937-1959
  • Civil liberties, civil rights, and the Supreme Court
  • Judicial monitoring of the new American welfare state
  • Epilogue: the court of today and the lessons of history.

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