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The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Oxford Companions
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In Democracy in America, de Tocqueville observed that there is
hardly a political question in the United States which does not
sooner or later turn into a judicial one. Two hundred years of
American history have certainly born out the truth of this remark.
Whether a controversy is political, economic, or social, whether it
focuses on child labor, prayer in public schools, war powers,
busing, abortion, business monopolies, or capital punishment,
eventually the battle is taken to court. And the ultimate venue for
these vital struggles is the Supreme Court. Indeed, the Supreme
Court is a prism through which the entire life of our nation is
magnified and illuminated, and through which we have defined
ourselves as a people. Now, in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme
Court of the United States, readers have a rich source of
information about one of the central institutions of American life.
Everything one would want to know about the Supreme Court is here,
in more than a thousand alphabetically arranged entries. There are
biographies of every justice who ever sat on the Supreme Court
(with pictures of each) as well as entries on rejected nominees and
prominent judges (such as Learned Hand), on presidents who had an
important impact on - or conflict with - the Court (including
Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt),
and on other influential figures (from Alexander Hamilton to Cass
Gilbert, the architect of the Supreme Court Building). More than
four hundred entries examine every major case that the court has
decided, from Marbury v. Madison (which established the Court's
power to declare federal laws unconstitutional) and Scott v.
Sandford (the Dred Scott Case) toBrown v. Board of Education and
Roe v. Wade. In addition, there are extended essays on the major
issues that have confronted the Court (from slavery to national
security, capital punishment to religion, affirmative action to the
Vietnam War), entries on judicial matters and legal terms (ranging
from judicial review and separation of powers to amicus brief and
habeas corpus), articles on all Amendments to the Constitution, and
an extensive, four-part history of the Court. And as in all Oxford
Companions, the contributions combine scholarship with engaging
insight, giving us a sense of the personality and the inner
workings of the Court. They examine everything from the wanderings
of the Supreme Court (the first session was held in the Royal
Exchange Building in New York City, and the Court at times has met
in a Congressional committee room, a tavern, a rented house, and
finally, in 1935, its own building), to the Jackson-Black feud and
the clouded resignation of Abe Fortas, to the Supreme Court's press
room and the paintings and sculptures adorning the Supreme Court
building. The decisions of the Supreme Court have touched - and
will continue to influence - every corner of American society. A
comprehensive, authoritative guide to the Supreme Court, this
volume is an essential reference source for everyone interested in
the workings of this vital institution and in the multitude of
issues it has confronted over the course of its history.
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