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The most powerful court in the world : a history of the Supreme Court of the United States / Stuart Banner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banner, Stuart, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (673 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- This is an authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution.
- Contents:
- Establishing the court
- Itinerant judges on a part-time court
- Federal and state power
- Slaves and Indians
- The court and the Civil War
- Life at the court, 1870-1930
- The Jim Crow court
- The Lochner era
- The birth of the modern court
- Court-packing and constitutional change
- The justices at war
- Desegregation
- The liberal court
- A partial counterrevolution
- New paths to the court
- Back to the right.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 24, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-778038-5
- 0-19-778036-9
- OCLC:
- 1428039791
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