The people's courts pursuing judicial independence in America / Jed Handelsman Shugerman.

Author/creator Shugerman, Jed Handelsman, 1974-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
Descriptionviii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

Contents Introduction : America's peculiar institution -- Declaring judicial independence -- Judicial challenges in the early republic -- Judicial elections as separation of powers -- Panic and trigger -- The American revolutions of 1848 -- The boom of judicial review -- Reconstructing independence -- The progressives' failed solutions -- The Great Depression, crime, and the revival of appointment -- The puzzling rise of merit -- Judicial plutocracy afer 1980 -- Conclusion : interests, ideas, and judicial independence.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [295]-367) and index.
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LCCN 2011018540
ISBN9780674055483 (hbk.)
ISBN0674055489 (hbk.)

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