Packing the court : the rise of judicial power and the coming crisis of the Supreme Court / James MacGregor Burns.
Burns, James MacGregor.
2009
KF8742 .B79 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Packing the court : the rise of judicial power and the coming crisis of the Supreme Court / James MacGregor Burns.
Author Burns, James MacGregor.
ISBN 9781594202193
1594202192
Imprint New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Language English
Description 326 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number KF8742 .B79 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 347.73/26
Summary From renowned political theorist and Pulitzer Prize winner James MacGregor Burns, an illuminating critique of how an unstable, unaccountable, and frequently partisan Supreme Court has come to wield more power than the founding fathers ever intended.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-312) and index.
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The first courtpackers
John Marshall's Constitution
The Dred decision
War powers: Lincoln vs. Taney
Deconstruction: Republican reversal
A court for the gilded age
The triumphant Mr. Taft
FDR's boldest gamble
"Wild horses" : the Roosevelt court
Leadership: the Warren court
Republicans as activists
Hard right: the Cheney-Bush court
Ending judicial supremacy
The justices of the Supreme Court.

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