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9780815334286

The Least Dangerous Branch: Separation of Powers and Court-Packing: The Supreme Court in American Society

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815334286

  • ISBN10:

    0815334281

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-12-15
  • Publisher: Routledge

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

Table of Contents

Series Introduction vii
Volume Introduction ix
The Supreme Court and the Political Question: Affirmation or Abdication?
1(38)
Ralph J. Bean
Constitution, Congress, and Court: On the Theory, Law, and Politics of Appellate Jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court
39(78)
Leland E. Beck
Can a President Pack --- or Draft --- the Supreme Court? FDR and the Court in the Great Depression and World War II
117(18)
Michael Comiskey
Reneging on History? Playing the Court/Congress/President Civil Rights Game
135(73)
William N. Eskridge
Constraining ``The Least Dangerous Branch'': The Tradition of Attacks on Judicial Power
208(25)
Wilfred Feinberg
The Supreme Court Under the Judiciary Act of 1925
233(30)
Felix Frankfurter
James M. Landis
The Origins of Franklin D. Roosevelt's ``Court-Packing'' Plan
263(54)
William E. Leuchtenburg
Court-Curbing Periods in American History
317(20)
Stuart S. Nagel
The President and the Court: Reinterpreting the Court-Packing Episode of 1937
337(28)
Michael Nelson
Reflection on the Separation of Powers and Judicial Review at the End of the Reagan Era
365(32)
Peter E. Quint
Unfulfilled Aspirations: The Court-Packing Efforts of Presidents Reagan and Bush
397(22)
Christopher R. Smith
Thomas R. Hensley
Acknowledgments 419

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