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

by Kermit L. Hall (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815334286
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/15/2000
Series:	Supreme Court in American Society Series , #5
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

The Supreme Court and the Political Question: Affirmation or Abdication? *; Constitution, Congress, and Court: On the Theory, Law, and Politics of Appellate Jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court; Can a President Pack—Or Draft—The Supreme Court? FDR and the Court in the Great Depression and World War II; Reneging on History? Playing the Court/Congress/President Civil Rights Game; Constraining “The Least Dangerous Branch”: The Tradition of Attacks on Judicial Power; The Supreme Court under the Judiciary Act of 1925; The Origins of Franklin D. Roosevelt's “Court-Packing” Plan; Court-Curbing Periods in American History; The President and the Court: Reinterpreting the Court-packing Episode of 1937; Reflections on the Separation of Powers and Judicial Review at the End of the Reagan Era; Unfulfilled Aspirations: The Court-Packing Efforts of Presidents Reagan and Bush