Les grands juges de la Cour suprême des États-Unis
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No judicial institution plays a role in the life of a people comparable to that of the Supreme Court in the United States. Already in 1835, Tocqueville pointed out: “In the hands of the seven federal judges rest unceasingly the peace, the prosperity, the very existence of the Union”. History has confirmed his analyzes many times. In the 21st century , its power is still just as great, but, with the deepening of democracy, the Court struggles to be recognized as fully legitimate, even in the United States.
In 2021, President Joe Biden appointed a commission of about 50 members to consider ways to make it more responsive to the hopes of the sovereign people. Their analyzes not yet known to date will be added to those of the many reports already published by the Congress on the subject. The United States never ceases to question the extraordinary influence that the Court exercises over American society. Who would have originally thought that the institution would acquire such power?
Certainly not those who had designed it because, originally, the Court had only limited powers. The federal judicial power at the top of which it was placed was considered indispensable only because the Union had to have its own judicial power, not being able to be judged by that of its members and because it was intended to govern only "a small number and defined" matters.
ISBN
9782247217007 (pb.)
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Dalloz
City
Paris, France
Keywords
United States Supreme Court, John Jay, John Marshall, Roger B. Taney, Oliver W. Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Fiske Stone, Earl Warren, William H. Rehnquist
Disciplines
Courts | Judges | Law | Law and Politics | Legal History | Supreme Court of the United States
Recommended Citation
Zoller, Elisabeth, "Les grands juges de la Cour suprême des États-Unis" (2022). Books & Book Chapters by Maurer Faculty. 316.
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facbooks/316
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Full bibliographic details available in IUCAT
Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library KF 8742 .Z64 2022