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The most powerful court in the world : a history of the Supreme Court of the United States /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Banner, Stuart, 1963- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.