Stuart Banner's The Most Powerful Court in the World is an authoritative history of the United States Supreme Court from the Founding era to the present. Not merely a history of the Court's opinions and jurisprudence, it is also a rich account of the Court in the broadest sense--of the sorts of people who become justices and the methods by which they are chosen, of how the Court does its work, and of its relationship with other branches of government. Rather than praising or criticizing the Court's decisions, Banner makes the case that one cannot fully understand the decisions without knowing about the institution that produced them.…mehr
Stuart Banner's The Most Powerful Court in the World is an authoritative history of the United States Supreme Court from the Founding era to the present. Not merely a history of the Court's opinions and jurisprudence, it is also a rich account of the Court in the broadest sense--of the sorts of people who become justices and the methods by which they are chosen, of how the Court does its work, and of its relationship with other branches of government. Rather than praising or criticizing the Court's decisions, Banner makes the case that one cannot fully understand the decisions without knowing about the institution that produced them.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Stuart Banner is the Norman Abrams Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books about the history of the American legal system, including How the Indians Lost Their Land; The Death Penalty; The Decline of Natural Law; Speculation; The Baseball Trust; and American Property.
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Abbreviations Introduction 1. Establishing the Court 2. Itinerant Judges on a Part-time Court 3. Federal and State Power 4. Slaves and Indians 5. The Court and the Civil War 6. Life at the Court, 1870-1930 7. The Jim Crow Court 8. The Lochner Era 9. The Birth of the Modern Court 10. Court-Packing and Constitutional Change 11. The Justices at War 12. Desegregation 13. The Liberal Court 14. A Partial Counterrevolution 15. New Paths to the Court 16. Back to the Right Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Index
Abbreviations Introduction 1. Establishing the Court 2. Itinerant Judges on a Part-time Court 3. Federal and State Power 4. Slaves and Indians 5. The Court and the Civil War 6. Life at the Court, 1870-1930 7. The Jim Crow Court 8. The Lochner Era 9. The Birth of the Modern Court 10. Court-Packing and Constitutional Change 11. The Justices at War 12. Desegregation 13. The Liberal Court 14. A Partial Counterrevolution 15. New Paths to the Court 16. Back to the Right Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Index
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