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Building the judiciary : law, courts, and the politics of institutional development /

How did the federal judiciary transcend early limitations to become a powerful institution of American governance? How did the Supreme Court move from political irrelevance to political centrality? This book uncovers the causes and consequences of judicial institution-building in the United States f...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Crowe, Justin, 1981-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Collection:Princeton studies in American politics.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The puzzle of judicial institution building
  • The early republic : establishment
  • Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy : reorganization
  • The Civil War and reconstruction : empowerment
  • The gilded age and the progressive era : restructuring
  • The interwar and new deal years : bureaucratization
  • Modern America : specialization
  • Judicial power in a political world.