The Supreme Court on Trial

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Preface vi
• Contents x
• I • a Court on Trial 2
• Chapter Two A Court on Trial 16
• Chapter Three A Question of Sovereignty 28
• Chapter Four The Judges Before Their Peers 44
• Chapter Five The Right to Decide 56
• Ii • Constitutional Language And Judicial Review 64
• Chapter Seven The Great Trial of 1937 82
• Chapter Eight How Firm a Foundation? 94
• Chapter Nine "Principles . . . Long and Well Established" 104
• Chapter Ten Judicial Review Under Review 116
• Iii • the Supreme Court And Public Policy 128
• Chapter Twelve What is Commerce? 140
• Chapter Thirteen To Regulate Commerce Among the States 152
• Chapter Fourteen Due Process of Law 170
• Iv • a New Constitutional Regime? 186
• Chapter Sixteen Justification of Judgments 204
• Chapter Seventeen A Plea for Boldness in Judges 216
• V • Judicial Power And Democratic Government 234
• Chapter Nineteen A Choice of Forums 248
• Chapter Twenty Frontiers of Judicial Power 260
• Appendix John Marshall on Judicial Review 276
• Bibliographic Notes 280
• Index 303

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