The History of the Supreme Court of the United States

by Alexander M. Bickel , Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780521877640
• ISBN10: 0521877644
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book on the Supreme Court during the Chief Justiceship of Edward Douglass White (191021) covers an important aspect of American history during the Progressive Era. This was a time when the role of the Supreme Court was debated with a passion rarely exceeded in our history. In its constitutional, antitrust, regulatory, and race-relations decisions, the Supreme Court found itself at the heart of the most important economic and political questions of the day. This was a time when some of the most brilliant jurists in American history sat on the Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Louis D. Brandeis; and Charles Evans Hughes, to name a few. This book sets the Supreme Court in the midst of the political, economic, and social turmoil of one of the most important periods of American history.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Editor's Foreword	p. xiii
Mr. Taft Rehabilitates the Court	p. 3
The Rule of Reason	p. 86
The Fate of Social Legislation, 1910-14	p. 200
Appointment Cycles	p. 317
The Fate of Social Legislation, 1914-21: Federal	p. 414
The Fate of Social Legislation, 1914-21: State	p. 548
Federal Administration and the Federal Specialties	p. 649
Acknowledgments	p. 721
Preface	p. 725
The Heyday of Jim Crow	p. 729
The Peonage Cases: The Supreme Court and the "Wheel of Servitude"	p. 820
Black Disfranchisement from the KKK to the Grandfather Clause	p. 908
Table of Cases	p. 991
Table of Statutes	p. 1019
Index	p. 1021
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