The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
by Kermit L. Hall
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The second edition of this authoritative guide on the impact of the Supreme Court's decisions on American society includes updated entries on key cases over the past thirteen years, as well as a fully revised treatment of areas of constitutional law.Tags
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- Canonical title
- The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
- People/Characters
- Abigail Adams; John Adams; John Quincy Adams; Harry A. Blackmun; Louis D. Brandeis; William J. Brennan, Jr. (show all 29); Warren E. Burger; Salmon P. Chase; Barry Goldwater; John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States; Thurgood Marshall; Sandra Day O'Connor; William H. Rehnquist; Antonin Scalia; William Howard Taft; Clarence Thomas; Hugo Black; William O. Douglas; Stephen J. Field; Felix Frankfurter; John Marshall Harlan; John Marshall Harlan II; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Charles Evans Hughes; Harlan Fiske Stone; Joseph Story; William Howard Taft; Roger Brooke Taney; Earl Warren
- Important events
- Baker v. Carr (1962); Brown v. Board of Education; Griswold v. Connecticut; Judiciary Act of 1789; Marbury v. Madison (1803); McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) (show all 11); Miranda v. Arizona (1966); Reynolds v. Sims (1964); Roe v. Wade; Scott v. Sanford; Dred Scott Decision (1857)
- First words
- Introduction -- The Supreme Court of the United States is at once the least and the most accessible branch of the Federal Government.
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 347.73
- Canonical LCC
- KF8742.A35
- Disambiguation notice
- The Oxford guide to the Supreme Court of the United States was originally published as The Oxford companion to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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- Genres
- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Reference
- DDC/MDS
- 347.73 — Society, government, & culture Law U.S. Supreme Court - Judicial Decisions North America Civil procedure and courts of the United States
- LCC
- KF8742 .A35 — Law Law of the United States Law of the United States (Federal) Courts. Procedure Court organization and procedure
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- English
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- ISBNs
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