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Pack the court! : a defense of Supreme Court expansion / Stephen M. Feldman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feldman, Stephen M., 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court--History.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Law--Political aspects--United States.
- Law.
- Separation of powers--United States.
- Separation of powers.
- Law--Political aspects.
- History.
- Judges--Selection and appointment--United States.
- Judges.
- Judges--Selection and appointment.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: The court-packing controversy
- The size of the Supreme Court : a history
- FDR's court-packing plan
- Republican democracy
- Pluralist democracy
- The history of the law-politics dichotomy
- The myth of the law-politics dichotomy (or, understanding the law-politics dynamic)
- The purists
- A little bit of this, a little bit of that
- An emulsion
- Understanding legal interpretation : the law-politics dynamic
- Implications of the law-politics dynamic
- For Supreme Court justices
- For politicians, commentators, and citizens
- For scholars
- The Roberts Court's conservatism
- Judicial denigration of democratic government
- Judicial protection of wealth and the economic marketplace
- Lack of judicial protection for women
- Judicial protection for whites, not people of color
- Judicial protection of christianity
- Counterexamples : how conservative is the Roberts Court?
- Conclusion : court-packing and Supreme Court legitimacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Feldman, Stephen M., 1955- Pack the court!
- ISBN:
- 1439921601
- 9781439921609
- Publisher Number:
- 40030682308
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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