The Coming of the Nixon Court: The 1972 Term and the Transformation of Constitutional Law

by Earl M Maltz

Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education and continuing with a series of decisions that, among other things, expanded the reach of the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court that Richard Nixon inherited had presided over a progressive revolution in the law. But by 1972 Nixon had managed to replace four members of the so-called Warren Court with justices more aligned with his own law-and-order conservatism. Nixon's appointees--Warren Burger as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700622780
• ISBN13: 9780700622788
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"