The judiciary and responsible government, 1910-1921 / Part One by Alexander M. Bickel, Part Two by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Record id:

59524

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Author:

Bickel, Alexander M.

United States. Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.

Schmidt, Benno C., 1942-

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Series:

The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States ; Vol. IX.

Subject:

United States. -- Supreme Court. -- History.

Judges -- United States.

United States -- Politics and government -- History.

Contents:

Part One. I. Mr Taft rehabilitates the court

II. The rule of reason

III. The fate of social legislation, 1910-14

IV. Appointment cycles

V. The fate of social legislation, 1914-21: federal

VI. The fate of social legislation, 1914-21: state

VII. Federal administration and the federal specialties

Part Two. VIII. The heyday of Jim Crow

IX. The peonage cases: the Supreme Court and the wheel of servitude

X. Black disfranchisement from the KKK to the grandfather clause.

Summary:

This book on the Supreme Court during the Chief Justiceship of Edward Douglass White (1910-21) covers a time in American history when the role of the court was widely debated and questioned. It was also a time when some of America's most brilliant jurists sat on the court.

Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780521877640

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Phys. description:

xiv, 1041 p : ill. ; 24 cm