The American Supreme Court / Robert G. McCloskey
Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994Edition: Second editionDescription: xvii, 267 pagesISBN: 0226556778; 9780226556772; 0226556786; 9780226556789Subject(s): The American Supreme CourtDDC classification: KL221.G1M32 1994 | KL221.G1M32 1994The 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 -- Epilogue: the court of today and the lessons of history
Previous edition, 1st, published in 1960
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