The Supreme Court : America's judicial heritage.
"This is not a book on constitutional law. It is primarily an attempt to fill a gap by explaining in greater detail than is possible in a broad history of the United States the role of the Supreme Court in the nation's history, the political and economic origins of some of the cases decide...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dodd, Mead,
©1961.
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| Series: | Apollo editions ;
A-10 |
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Table of Contents:
- Equal justice under the law
- The founding of the federal judiciary
- A man named Marbury
- "Let the end be legitimate"
- Commerce and contract
- "Dred Scott was not a citizen of Missouri"
- War and reconstruction
- The big business years
- "But not as against the product of ruined lives"
- The sick chickens
- "Our constitution is color blind"
- Appendix I. The Constitution of the United States
- Appendix II. Justices of the Supreme Court
- Appendix III. Citations.