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The Supreme Court and the American elite, 1789-2008 / Lucas A. Powe, Jr.
LIBRA KF8742 .P678 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powe, L. A. Scot.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court--History.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- History.
- Law--Political aspects.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- x, 421 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Very modest beginnings
- The court in a two-party republic
- The states and the republic
- The sectional crisis and the Jacksonian court
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Industrializing America
- Progressivism, normalcy, and depression
- After the New Deal constitutional revolution
- Reforming America
- An uneasy status quo
- An imperial court.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-393) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674032675
- 0674032675
- OCLC:
- 244293283
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