Calmly to Poise the Scales of Justice: A History of the Courts of...
Morris, Jeffrey B[randon]. Calmly to Poise the Scales of Justice: A History of the Courts of Columbia Circuit. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, [2001]. xxi, 425 pp. Illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth fine, in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $25. * Contents: Ch. 1. "Compact in Situation, United in Interest, and Happily Placed": The Courts' Creation and Early Years, 1801-60; Ch. 2. War and Transformation: The Republican Court, 1861-92; Ch. 3. Beginnings of a National Reputation: Changes in the D.C. Circuit, 1893-1932; Ch. 4. The New Deal and Wartime: F.D.R.'s Court, 1933-45; Ch. 5. "Questions of National Magnitude": The Truman Years, 1945-52; Ch. 6. Crucial Controversies: The Eisenhower Years, 1953-60; Ch. 7. "A Collectivity of Fighting Cats": The D.C. Courts in the Sixties; Ch. 8. Separation of Powers: The Nixon Era, 1969-74; Ch. 9. "Active Partner in a Whirlwind Era": Overseer of the Administrative Agencies in the 1970s; Ch. 10. Changing Course: The "Reagan Court" of the 1980s; Epilogue: The D.C. Circuit in the Nineties; App. A. Judges of the Courts of the District of Columbia Circuit; App. B. Abbreviations of Judges' Names in Case Citations.
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