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The Supreme Court A to Z /

Offers accessible information about the Supreme Court, including its history, traditions, organization, dynamics, and personalities.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jost, Kenneth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : CQ Press, 2012.
Edición:5th ed.
Colección:CQ's American government A to Z series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A. Abortion
  • Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
  • Affirmative action
  • Aliens
  • Alito, Samuel A., Jr.
  • Amending process
  • American Bar Association
  • Amicus curiae
  • Antitrust
  • Appeal
  • Appointment and removal power
  • Arguments
  • Arms, right to bear
  • Arrests
  • Assembly, freedom of
  • Assigning opinions
  • Association, freedom of
  • Attainder, bill of
  • Attorney General
  • B. Background of justices
  • Bail
  • Baker v. Carr
  • Baldwin, Henry
  • Barbour, Philip P.
  • Bar of the Supreme Court
  • Bill of Rights
  • Black, Hugo L.
  • Blackmun, Harry A.
  • Blair, John, Jr.
  • Blatchford, Samuel
  • Bradley, Joseph P.
  • Brandeis, Louis D.
  • Brennan, William J., Jr.
  • Brewer, David J.
  • Breyer, Stephen G.
  • Brief
  • Brown, Henry B.
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Burger, Warren E.
  • Burton, Harold H.
  • Bush v. Gore
  • Busing
  • Butler, Pierce
  • Byrnes, James F.
  • C. Calhoun, John C.
  • Campaigns and elections
  • Campbell, John A.
  • Capital punishment
  • Cardozo, Benjamin N.
  • Case law
  • Case or controversy rule
  • Catron, John
  • Certiorari
  • Chase, Salmon P.
  • Chase, Samuel
  • Chief Justice
  • Child labor
  • Circuit riding
  • Citizenship
  • Civil liberties
  • Civil rights
  • Civil War amendments
  • Clark, Tom C.
  • Clarke, John H.
  • Class Action
  • Clay, Henry
  • Clerk of the Court
  • Clerks
  • Clifford, Nathan
  • Comity
  • Commerce power
  • Common law
  • Communism
  • Concurring opinions
  • Conferences
  • Confessions
  • Confirmation process
  • Congress and the Court
  • Congressional immunity
  • Constitutional law
  • Contempt of court
  • Contract clause
  • Cost of Supreme Court
  • Counsel, right to legal
  • Counselor to the Chief Justice
  • Courts, lower
  • Courts, powers of
  • Criminal law and procedure
  • Cruel and unusual punishment
  • Curator's Office
  • Currency powers
  • Curtis, Benjamin R.
  • Cushing, William
  • D. Daniel, Peter V.
  • Davis, David
  • Davis, John W.
  • Day, William R.
  • Decision days
  • De facto, de jure
  • Defendant
  • Disability rights
  • Discrimination
  • Dissenting opinions
  • Diversity jurisdiction
  • Docket
  • Double jeopardy
  • Douglas, William O.
  • Due process
  • Duvall, Gabriel
  • E. Education and the Court
  • Elections and the Court
  • Electronic surveillance
  • Ellsworth, Oliver
  • Equal protection
  • Exclusionary rule
  • Executive privilege and immunity
  • Ex parte
  • Ex post facto
  • Extrajudicial activities
  • F. Federalism
  • Federal Judicial Center
  • Felony
  • Field, Stephen J.
  • Flag salute cases
  • Foreign affairs
  • Fortas, Abe
  • Frankfurter, Felix
  • Fuller, Melville W.
  • G. Garland, Augustus H.
  • Gay rights
  • Gibbons v. Ogden
  • Gideon v. Wainwright
  • Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
  • Goldberg, Arthur J.
  • Grand jury
  • Gray, Horace
  • Grier, Robert C.
  • H. Habeas corpus
  • Hamilton, Alexander
  • Harlan, John Marshall (1833-1911)
  • Harlan, John Marshall (1899-1971)
  • Historical Society, Supreme Court
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
  • Housing the Court
  • Hughes, Charles Evans
  • Hunt, Ward
  • I. Impeachment
  • Impeachment of justices
  • Income tax
  • Incorporation doctrine
  • Indictment
  • In forma pauperis
  • Injunction
  • Intellectual property
  • International law
  • Internet
  • Internment cases
  • Iredell, James
  • J. Jackson, Andrew
  • Jackson, Howell E.
  • Jackson, Robert H.
  • Jay, John
  • Jefferson, Thomas
  • Job discrimination
  • Johnson, Thomas
  • Johnson, William
  • Judgment of the Court
  • Judicial activism
  • Judicial Conference of the United States
  • Judicial restraint
  • Judicial review
  • Juries
  • Jurisdiction
  • Justiciability
  • K. Kagan, Elena
  • Kennedy, Anthony M.
  • L. Lamar, Joseph R.
  • Lamar, Lucius Q.C.
  • Legal Office of the Court
  • Legal system in America
  • Legal tender cases
  • Legislative veto
  • Libel
  • Library of the Court
  • Lincoln, Abraham
  • Livingston, H. Brockholst
  • Loyalty oaths
  • Lurton, Horace H.
  • M. Majority opinion
  • Mandamus
  • Mandatory jurisdiction
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • Marshal of the Court
  • Marshall, John
  • Marshall, Thurgood
  • Matthews, Stanley
  • McCulloch v. Maryland
  • McKenna, Joseph
  • McKinley, John
  • McLean, John
  • McReynolds, James C.
  • Media and the Court
  • Merits, on the
  • Miller, Samuel F.
  • Minton, Sherman
  • Miranda v. Arizona
  • Misdemeanor
  • Moody, William H.
  • Moore, Alfred
  • Mootness
  • Murphy, Frank
  • N. Nelson, Samuel
  • New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  • Nixon, Richard
  • Nomination to the Court
  • O. Oaths of office
  • Obiter dictum
  • Obscenity and indecency
  • O'Connor, Sandra Day
  • Official immunity
  • Open housing
  • Operations of the Court
  • Opinions
  • Original intent
  • Original jurisdiction
  • P. Pardons
  • Parochial schools, aid to
  • Paterson, William
  • Pay and perquisites
  • Peckham, Rufus W.
  • Pentagon Papers case
  • Per curiam opinion
  • Personal papers
  • Petition, right of
  • Petitioner
  • Pitney, Mahlon
  • Plaintiff
  • Plea bargaining
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Plurality opinion
  • Police power
  • Political question
  • Politics and the Court
  • Powell, Lewis E., Jr.
  • Precedent
  • Preemption
  • The President and the Court
  • Press, freedom of
  • Prima facie
  • Privacy, right of
  • Probable cause
  • Property rights
  • Public accommodations
  • Public Information Office
  • Public opinion and the Court
  • R. Ratings of justices
  • Reagan, Ronald
  • Reapportionment and redistricting
  • Reed, Stanley F.
  • Rehnquist, William H.
  • Religion, freedom of
  • Remand
  • Removal of cases
  • Reporter of decisions
  • Resignation
  • Respondent
  • Retirement
  • Reversals of earlier rulings
  • Reversals of rulings by constitutional amendment
  • Reversals of rulings by legislation
  • Ripeness
  • Roberts, John G., Jr.
  • Roberts, Owen J.
  • Roe v. Wade
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D.
  • Rutledge, John
  • Rutledge, Wiley B.
  • S. Sanford, Edward T.
  • Scalia, Antonin
  • Schedule of arguments and conferences
  • School desegregation
  • School prayer
  • Scottsboro cases
  • Scott v. Sandford
  • Seal of the Supreme Court
  • Search and seizure
  • Sedition laws
  • Segregation
  • Selective Service rulings
  • Self-incrimination
  • Seniority
  • Sentencing guidelines
  • Separation of powers
  • Severability
  • Sex discrimination
  • Shiras, George, Jr.
  • Size of the Court
  • Slaughterhouse cases
  • Slavery and the Court
  • Solicitor General
  • Sotomayor, Sonia
  • Souter, David H.
  • Speech, commercial
  • Speech, freedom of
  • Speedy trial, right to
  • Spending powers
  • Standing to sue
  • Stare decisis
  • States and the Court
  • Stevens, John Paul
  • Stewart, Potter
  • Stone, Harlan Fiske
  • Story, Joseph
  • Strict construction
  • Strong, William
  • Subpoena
  • Summary judgment
  • Supremacy clause
  • Supreme Court building
  • Sutherland, George
  • Swayne, Noah H.
  • T. Taft, William Howard
  • Taney, Roger B.
  • Taxing power
  • Temporary restraining order
  • Term limits
  • Term of the Court
  • Test case
  • Thomas, Clarence
  • Thompson, Smith
  • Three-judge court
  • Todd, Thomas
  • Tort law
  • Traditions of the Court
  • Travel, right to
  • Treaty power
  • Trials
  • Trimble, Robert
  • U. Unconstitutional statutes
  • United States Reports
  • V. Vacancy
  • Vacate
  • Van Devanter, Willis
  • Veto power
  • Vinson, Frederick M.
  • Voting rights
  • W. Waite, Morrison R.
  • War powers
  • Warren, Earl
  • Washington, Bushrod
  • Wayne, James M.
  • Webster, Daniel
  • White, Byron R.
  • White, Edward D.
  • Whittaker, Charles E.
  • Wilson, James
  • Woodbury, Levi
  • Woods, William B.
  • Workload of the Court
  • Writing opinions
  • Y. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
  • Z. Zoning
  • Reference material. Historic milestones of the Court
  • Supreme Court nominations, 1789-2011
  • Seat chart of the Justices
  • Constitution of the United States
  • Online sources of decisions.