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The History of the Supreme Court of the United States Vol 12 The Birth of the Modern Constitution The United States Supreme Court 19411953 - Oliver ... of the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: William M. Wiecek

1941-1953 marked the emergence of legal liberalism, in the divergent activist efforts of Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Frank Murphy, and Wiley Rutledge. The war and early Cold War years of the Court in reality marked the birth of the constitutional order that dominated American public law in the later twentieth century. That legal outlook emph...  more »asized judicial concern for civil rights, civil liberties, and reaction to the emergent national security state. This book recounts the history of United States Supreme Court in the momentous yet usually overlooked years between the constitutional revolution that occurred in the 1930s and Warren-Court judicial activism in the 1950s.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780521848206
ISBN-10: 0521848202
Publication Date: 1/23/2006
Pages: 752
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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