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The American Supreme Court /

McCloskey, Robert G.

The American Supreme Court / Robert G. McCloskey. - 4th ed. / revised by Sanford Levinson. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. - xv, 331 p. ; 24 cm. - The Chicago history of American civilization .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-313) and index.

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 modern court and postwar America : 1937-1959 -- Civil liberties, civil rights, and the Supreme Court -- Judicial monitoring of the new American welfare state.

0226556816 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226556824 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004009456


United States. Supreme Court --History.


Courts of last resort--History.--United States
Constitutional history--United States.

KF8742 / .M35 2005

347.73/26