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Justices and Presidents : a political history of appointments to the Supreme Court
- Title
- Justices and Presidents : a political history of appointments to the Supreme Court / [by] Henry J. Abraham.
- Author
- Abraham, Henry J. (Henry Julian), 1921-2020
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 310 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- United States. Supreme Court > History
- United States. Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Selection and appointment
- United States. Congress. Senate > Powers and duties
- United States. Congress. Senate
- United States. Supreme Court
- USA Präsident
- USA Supreme Court
- Bibel
- Judges > Selection and appointment > United States
- Executive power > United States
- Political questions and judicial power > United States
- Executive power
- Judges > Selection and appointment
- Legislative power
- Political questions and judicial power
- Berufung
- Rechtspolitik
- Judges > United States > Appointment, qualifications, tenure, etc
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 295-298.
- Contents
- 1. Prefatory remarks: the Nixon era -- 2. How they get there: court staffing -- 3. Why they get to the supreme court: qualifications and rationalizations -- 4. The first forty years: from George Washington through John Quincy Adams -- 5. The next forty years: from Andrew Jackson to Andrew Johnson -- 6. The balance of the nineteenth century: from Ulysses S. Grant to William McKinley -- 7. Into the twentieth century: from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin Roosevelt -- 8. The court alters course: F.D.R. and Truman -- 9. The almost immediate past: from Ike through L.B.J.
- ISBN
- 0195017862
- 9780195017861
- LCCN
- 73090341
- OCLC
- ocm00921731
- 921731
- SCSB-9006904
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library