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The American Supreme Court

ISBN: 9780226556826 | 0226556824
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Pub. Date: 11/1/2004

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
First published more than forty years ago, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the U.S. Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court. In this fourth edition, Sanford Levinson extends McCloskey's magisterial treatment to address the Court's most recent decisions, including its controversial ruling in Bush v. Gore and its expansion of sexual privacy in Lawrence v. Texas. The book's chronology of important Supreme Court decisions and itsannotated biblio... MORE
Preface to the Fourth Editionix
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Preface to the First Editionxv
The Genesis and Nature of Judicial Power
1(15)
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The Establishment of the Right to Decide: 1789--1810
16(19)
The Marshall Court and the Shaping of the Nation: 1810--1835
35(18)
The Court under Taney: The Natural History of Judicial Prestige
53(14)
Constitutional Evolution in the Gilded Age: 1865--1900
67(24)
The Judiciary and the Regulatory State: 1900--1937
91(30)
The Modern Court and Postwar America: 1937--1959
121(27)
Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, and the Supreme Court
148(47)
Judicial Monitoring of the New American Welfare State
195(49)
Epilogue: The Court of Today and the Lessons of History244(8)
Coda252(13)
Important Dates265(8)
Bibliographical Essay273(42)
Index315
Robert G. McCloskey was professor of government at Harvard University. He is the author of American Conservatism in the Age of the Enterprise. Sanford Levinson is the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School, the author of Constitutional Faith, and coeditor of Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking.

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