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9780140292015
"A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT combines Zinn's bottom-up perspective, exemplified by stories of plaintiffs who brought landmark cases, with a top-down perspective that brings alive the sweeping effects of seemingly remote, abstract judicial concerns....Key decisions have sometimes been crudely arbitrary, other times exquisitely argued in their inevitability. Spanning both extremes, four centuries and most major subjects of constitutional litigation, Irons offers a unique and inspiring view in which the deeply political nature of the Supreme Court is not a weakness unless we, the people, allow it to be.Irons, Peter H. is the author of 'People's History of the Supreme Court', published 2000 under ISBN 9780140292015 and ISBN 0140292012.
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