The American Supreme Court /
McCloskey, Robert G.(Robert Green)
Levinson, Sanford,1941-
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2010.
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 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.
United States. Supreme Court
Courts of last resort
Constitutional history