The Supreme Court and the American elite, 1789-2008 [electronic resource] / Lucas A. Powe, Jr.

Author/Creator:

Powe, L. A. Scot.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Format/Description:

Book
x, 421 p.

Subjects:

United States. Supreme Court -- History.
Constitutional history -- United States.
Law -- Political aspects.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Contents:

Very modest beginnings
The court in a two-party republic
The states and the republic
The sectional crisis and the Jacksonian court
Civil War and Reconstruction
Industrializing America
Progressivism, normalcy, and depression
After the New Deal constitutional revolution
Reforming America
An uneasy status quo
An imperial court.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-393) and index.

ISBN:

0-674-05442-3

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