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| Author: Leon Friedman | Editor: Leon Friedman Fred L. Israel |
| Format: | Hardcover |
Product Summary
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Facts on File
ISBN-10: 0816070156
ISBN-13: 9780816070152
Buy.com Sku: 208019458
Publish Date: 4/1/2012
Pages:
1600
Edition Number:
4
Age Range:
19 to 22
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| "The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men." So wrote Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison in 1803, the first case in which the Supreme Court ruled a law unconstitutional and asserted its right and power to interpret the U.S. Constitution. Since then, the Supreme Court has been a co-equal branch of government with Congress and the presidency. Arranged in chronological order, Justices of the United States Supreme Court, Fourth Edition examines the biographical facts of each Supreme Court justice''s life, including his or her background in the law, the paths that led each one to the Supreme Court, and each justice''s major decisions, and how these decisions reveal an underlying legal philosophy. |
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From the Publisher:
Examines the biographical facts of every Supreme Court justice's life throughout American History, in a comprehensive volume full of information, illustrations and fact boxes. |
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