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Named Person: | Sandra Day O'Connor; Sandra Day O'Connor; Sandra Day O'Connor |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sandra Day O'Connor; Craig Joyce |
ISBN: | 0375509259 9780375509254 |
OCLC Number: | 693591704 |
Description: | 330 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Life on the Court (What's it like? -- The Court's agenda -- Judicial appointment and tenure : a history -- The Supreme Court reports) -- A bit of history (Magna Carta and the rule of law -- The Constitution -- The ratification -- The evolution of the Bill of Rights -- The Judiciary Act of 1789 and American judicial tradition -- Impeachment and judicial independence -- A president, a chief justice, and the writ of habeas corpus) -- People who have helped shape the court (The rights of the individual and the legacy of Holmes -- William Howard Taft and the importance of unanimity Charles Evans Hughes and President Roosevelt's court-expansion plan -- Thurgood Marshall : the influence of a raconteur -- Warren E. Burger -- Lewis F. Powell, Jr.) -- Women and the law (Women in society : the American experience -- The women's suffrage movement and its aftermath -- Women in judging -- Women in power) -- The legal profession and the courts (Organization and structure of the American judicial system -- Juries : problems and solutions -- Professionalism -- Broadening our horizons) The rule of law in the twenty-first century (Shield of freedom : the American Constitution and its court -- The life of the law : principles of logic and experience from the United States -- Through the looking glass and into the crystal ball) |
Abstract:
The first female justice on the United States Supreme Court provides a history of the American legal system, discussing landmark cases that have shaped American democracy and her own experiences as a justice.
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by sarah.dunaway@vanderbilt.edu updated 2019-04-08