The History of the Supreme Court of the United States Hardback
by William M. (Syracuse University, New York) Wiecek
Part of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States series
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The Birth of the Modern Constitution recounts the history of the United States Supreme Court in the momentous yet usually overlooked years between the constitutional revolution in the 1930s and Warren-Court judicial activism in the 1950s. 1941–1953 marked the emergence of legal liberalism, in the divergent activist efforts of Hugo Black, William O.
Douglas, Frank Murphy, and Wiley Rutledge. The Stone/Vinson Courts consolidated the revolutionary accomplishments of the New Deal and affirmed the repudiation of classical legal thought, but proved unable to provide a substitute for that powerful legitimating explanatory paradigm of law.
Hence the period bracketed by the dramatic moments of 1937 and 1954, written off as a forgotten time of failure and futility, was in reality the first phase of modern struggles to define the constitutional order that will dominate the twenty-first century.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:752 pages, 32 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/01/2006
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- ISBN:9780521848206
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:752 pages, 32 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/01/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521848206
