An autobiography of the Supreme Court ; off-the-bench commentary by the justices. Edited and with an introd. by Alan F. Westin.

Contributor Westin, Alan F.

Imprint:New York : Macmillan, [1963]

Description475 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:The new judicial department / Chief Justice John Hay - Liberty and sedition in the new republic / Justice James Iredell - Federalist politics from the bench / Samuel Chase - A Jeffersonian defense of the federal courts / William Johnson - A friend to the Union / John Marshall - Why republics need an independent judiciary / Joseph Story - The weakest branch / Samuel F. Miller - Our power to declare laws unconstitutional / Stephen J. Field - Our duty to respect legislative enactments / John Marshall Harlan - The nation's safeguard / David J. Brewer - Law and the court / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Self-inflicted wounds and popular prescriptions / Charles Evans Hughes - History and the 1937 court proposal / John H. Clarke - A year in the new court / James F. Byrnes - The Supreme Court in the mirror of justices / Felix Frankfurter - John Marshall as chief justice / Joseph Story - The disciplined passion of Chief Justice Tawney / Benjamin R. Curtis - Bible and Constitution: Mr. Justice Harlan / David J. Brewer - The court years of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Felix Frankfurter - Charles Evans Hughes: the administrative master / Owen J. Roberts - Mr. Justice Brandeis: "microscope and telescope" / Robert H. Jackson - Justice Roberts and the "switch in time" / Felix Frankfurter - A sketch of the Supreme Court / Earl Warren - Fundamentals of judicial review / William J. Brennan, Jr. - The process of judging in constitutional cases / Felix Frankfurter - Judicial review and the protection of liberty / William O. Douglas - How cases get into the Supreme Court / Tom C. Clark - Working at Justice / William J. Brennan, Jr. - Reflections on reading statutes / Felix Frankfurter - The decline of stare decisis / William O. Douglas - State court and Supreme Court / William J. Brennan, Jr. - The Supreme Court as a political institution / Robert H. Jackson - The Bill of Rights / Hugo Black - Further thoughts on the "absolute" Bill of Rights / Hugo Black - The Bill of Rights and the States / William J. Brennan, Jr. - Self-willed judges and the judicial function / Felix Frankfurter - The Cold War, judicial review, and the military / Earl Warren.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliography.

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