The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy

The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy
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Publisher : New York : A.A. Knopf
Total Pages : 400
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Download or read book The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy written by Robert H. Jackson and published by New York : A.A. Knopf. This book was released on 1941 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert H. Jackson, published this book while serving as Attorney General of the United States. In it, Jackson traces the rise and fall of the influence of the Supreme Court of the United States, of its changes in make-up, in numbers, of its reversal of itself, of the dangers of judicial supremacy, when it closed its eyes to ""peaceful and democratic conciliation of our social and economic conflicts"". He then examines the response--President Franklin Roosevelt's 1937 effort to resist judicial expansionism through "Court-packing" legislation.


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