The people's courts [electronic resource] : pursuing judicial independence in America / Jed Handelsman Shugerman.
Shugerman, Jed Handelsman, 1974-
2012
KF8776 .S54 2012eb
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The people's courts [electronic resource] : pursuing judicial independence in America / Jed Handelsman Shugerman.
Author
Shugerman, Jed Handelsman, 1974-
ISBN
9780674062825 electronic book
9780674055483
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 381 p.)
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KF8776 .S54 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
347.73/14
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain on the bench. The People's Courts traces the history of this peculiarly American institution and the ongoing quest for an independent judiciary-one that would ensure fairness for all before the law-from the colonial era to the present.
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Declaring judicial independence
Judicial elections as separation of powers
The calm before the storm
Panic and trigger
The American revolutions of 1848
The boom of judicial review
Reconstructing independence
The progressives' failed solutions
Earl Warren, crime, and the revival of appointment
The Missouri plan
Exporting judicial elections
The puzzling rise of merit
Merit's stumble and surge, 1960s-70s
Judicial plutocracy from 1980 to the present.

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