The people's courts pursuing judicial independence in America /

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Main Author: Shugerman, Jed Handelsman, 1974-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Declaring judicial independence
  • Judicial elections as separation of powers
  • The calm before the storm
  • Panic and trigger
  • The American revolutions of 1848
  • The boom of judicial review
  • Reconstructing independence
  • The progressives' failed solutions
  • Earl Warren, crime, and the revival of appointment
  • The Missouri plan
  • Exporting judicial elections
  • The puzzling rise of merit
  • Merit's stumble and surge, 1960s-70s
  • Judicial plutocracy from 1980 to the present.