The Supreme Court and the American elite, 1789-2008 /

Powe, L. A. Scot.

The Supreme Court and the American elite, 1789-2008 / Lucas A. Powe, Jr. - Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2009. - x, 421 p. ; 22 cm.

Bibliogr. p. 389-393. Index.

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.

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United States. Supreme Court --History.


Constitutional history--United States.
Historia constitucional--Estados Unidos.

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