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Author Keck, Thomas Moylan

Title The most activist supreme court in history : the road to modern judicial conservatism / Thomas M. Keck
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 378 pages)
Contents The New Deal revolution and the reconstruction of constitutional law, 1937-1949 -- Frankfurter's failure : the rise and decline of judicial self-restraint, 1949-1962 -- The Warren court and its critics, 1962-1969 -- The Nixon court and the conservative turn, 1969-1980 -- The Reagan court and the conservative ascendance, 1980-1994 -- Activism and restraint on the Rehnquist court -- Law and politics on the Rehnquist court
Summary When conservatives took control of the federal judiciary in the 1980s, it was widely assumed that they would reverse the landmark rights-protecting precedents set by the Warren Court and replace them with a broad commitment to judicial restraint. Instead, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice William Rehnquist has reaffirmed most of those liberal decisions while creating its own brand of conservative judicial activism. Ranging from 1937 to the present, The Most Activist Supreme Court in History traces the legal and political forces that have shaped the modern Court. Thomas M. Keck argues that t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-355) and index
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Subject Rehnquist, William H., 1924-2005.
SUBJECT Rehnquist, William H., 1924-2005 fast
Subject United States. Supreme Court.
SUBJECT United States. Supreme Court fast
Subject Conservatism -- United States
Law -- Political aspects.
LAW -- Government -- Federal.
Conservatism
Law -- Political aspects
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004005108
ISBN 9780226428864
0226428869
9780226428840
0226428842
9786612537738
6612537736
1282537733
9781282537736