The American Supreme Court /
McCloskey, Robert G.(Robert Green)
Levinson, Sanford,1941-
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references 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
United States. Supreme Court.
Courts of last resort
Constitutional history