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Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Kermit L. Hall
The alphabetical arrangement makes this volume suitable for ready reference. More than 1,000 entries cover biographies, concepts, issues, procedures, and vocabulary, as well as cases. - Booklist
Oxford University Press
May 2005
1296 pages ISBN: 0195176618 Hardcover
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The Supreme Court has continued to write constitutional
history over the thirteen years since publication of the
highly acclaimed first edition of The Oxford Companion to
the Supreme Court. Two new justices have joined the high
court, more than 800 cases have been decided, and a good
deal of new scholarship has appeared on many of the topics
treated in the Companion. Chief Justice William H.
Rehnquist presided over the impeachment trial of President
Bill Clinton, and the Court as a whole played a decisive
and controversial role in the outcome of the 2000
presidential election. Under Rehnquists's leadership, a
bare majority of the justices have rewritten significant
areas of the law dealing with federalism, sovereign
immunity, and the commerce power. This new edition includes
new entries on key cases and fully updated treatment of
crucial areas of constitutional law, such as abortion,
freedom of religion, school desegregation, freedom of
speech, voting rights, military tribunals, and the rights
of the accused. These developments make the second edition
of this accessible and authoritative guide essential for
judges, lawyers, academics, journalists, and anyone
interested in the impact of the Court's decisions on
American society.
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