The American Supreme Court
By: Robert G. McCloskey ; revised by Sanford Levinson.
Contributors: Levinson, Sanford, 1941-
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226556864; 9780226556871
Subjects: United States. -- Supreme Court -- History; Courts of last resort -- United States -- History; Constitutional history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The genesis and nature of judicial power; title: The establishment of the right to decide : 1789-1810; title: The Marshall Court and the shaping of the nation : 1810-1835; title: The court under Taney : the natural history of judicial prestige; title: Constitutional evolution in the Gilded Age : 1865-1900; title: The judiciary and the regulatory state : 1900-1937; title: The modern court and postwar America : 1937-1959; title: Civil liberties, civil rights, and the Supreme Court; title: Judicial monitoring of the new American welfare state; title: Epilogue: the court of today and the lessons of history.