The Least Dangerous Branch

Separation of Powers and Court-Packing: The Supreme Court in American Society
Herausgeber: Hall, Kermit L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set Supreme Court in American Society

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 773g
• ISBN-13: 9780815334286
• ISBN-10: 0815334281
• Artikelnr.: 22099208

Autorenporträt

Kermit L. Hall

Inhaltsangabe

The Supreme Court and the Political Question: Affirmation or Abdication? *;
Constitution, Congress, and Court: On the Theory, Law, and Politics of
Appellate Jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court; Can a President
Pack-Or Draft-The Supreme Court? FDR and the Court in the Great Depression
and World War II; Reneging on History? Playing the Court/Congress/President
Civil Rights Game; Constraining "The Least Dangerous Branch": The Tradition
of Attacks on Judicial Power; The Supreme Court under the Judiciary Act of
1925; The Origins of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Court-Packing" Plan;
Court-Curbing Periods in American History; The President and the Court:
Reinterpreting the Court-packing Episode of 1937; Reflections on the
Separation of Powers and Judicial Review at the End of the Reagan Era;
Unfulfilled Aspirations: The Court-Packing Efforts of Presidents Reagan and
Bush