The History of the Supreme Court of the United States (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521848206)

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 emphasized 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.

Author: William M. Wiecek
ISBN-10: 0521848202
ISBN-13: 9780521848206
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2006
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.57lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.99d