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SUPREME COURT - A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL OVERVIEW OF AN INSTITUTIONAL DECISION MAKER

NCJ Number
65840
Author(s)
ANON
Date Published
1980
Length
9 pages
Annotation
A BIBLIOGRAPHY IS PRESENTED OF BOOKS, ARTICLES, LAW REVIEW ARTICLES, AND LANDMARK JUDICIAL DECISIONS FOCUSING ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND RELATED TOPICS.
Abstract
APPROXIMATELY 130 ENTRIES ARE PROVIDED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY. WORKS ARE ARRANGED IN CATEGORIES, INCLUDING AN INTRODUCTION TO THE JUDICIAL PROCESS, SEPARATION OF POWER, THE CONSTITUTION, JUDICIAL REVIEW, JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT, FEDERALISM, ORGANIZATION OF THE COURTS, ECONOMIC POLICY, AND THE SUPREME COURT. EACH ENTRY SPECIFIES THE AUTHOR, TITLE OF THE WORK, PUBLISHER, AND PUBLICATION DATE. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LANDMARK COURT DECISIONS SUCH AS DRED SCOTT V. SANFORD (1857), MOST WORKS DATE FROM 1960 THROUGH 1975. LANDMARK DECISIONS ARE ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER AACCORDING TO CASE NAME. SOME OF THE ENTRIES CITED CONSIDER THE SUPREME COURT AND THE MEDIA, JUDICIAL POLICYMAKING, FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE CONSTITUTION, CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE, THE GREAT JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT, THE JUDGE IN COMMUNIST SOCIETY, CIVIL RIGHTS CASES, THE JUDICIARY IN AMERICAN SAMOA, AND STATE COURT SYSTEMS. (LWM)