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The People's Courts : Pursuing Judicial Independence in America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (392 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674062825
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The People's CourtsDDC classification:
  • 347.73/14
LOC classification:
  • KF8776
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: America's Peculiar Institution -- 1. Declaring Judicial Independence -- 2. Judicial Challenges in the Early Republic -- 3. Judicial Elections as Separation of Powers -- 4. Panic and Trigger -- 5. The American Revolutions of 1848 -- 6. The Boom in Judicial Review -- 7. Reconstructing Independence -- 8. The Progressives' Failed Solutions -- 9. The Great Depression, Crime, and the Revival of Appointment -- 10. The Puzzling Rise of Merit -- 11. Judicial Plutocracy after 1980 -- Conclusion: Interests, Ideas, and Judicial Independence -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain on the bench. The People's Courts traces the history of this peculiarly American institution and the ongoing quest for an independent judiciary--one that would ensure fairness for all before the law--from the colonial era to the present.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: America's Peculiar Institution -- 1. Declaring Judicial Independence -- 2. Judicial Challenges in the Early Republic -- 3. Judicial Elections as Separation of Powers -- 4. Panic and Trigger -- 5. The American Revolutions of 1848 -- 6. The Boom in Judicial Review -- 7. Reconstructing Independence -- 8. The Progressives' Failed Solutions -- 9. The Great Depression, Crime, and the Revival of Appointment -- 10. The Puzzling Rise of Merit -- 11. Judicial Plutocracy after 1980 -- Conclusion: Interests, Ideas, and Judicial Independence -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain on the bench. The People's Courts traces the history of this peculiarly American institution and the ongoing quest for an independent judiciary--one that would ensure fairness for all before the law--from the colonial era to the present.

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