A Muted Fury : : Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937 / / William G. Ross.

For half a century before 1937, populists, progressives, and labor leaders complained bitterly that a "judicial oligarchy" impeded social and economic reform by imposing crippling restraints on trade unions and nullifying legislation that regulated business corporations. A Muted Fury, the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1994
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 229
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE. THE SEEDS OF DISCORD
  • TWO. CHALLENGES TO CONSTITUTIONAL ORTHODOXY
  • THREE. MELIORATIVE MEASURES
  • FOUR. RECONSTRUCTING THE BENCH
  • FIVE. THE JUDICIAL RECALL MOVEMENT
  • SIX. THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE JUDICIAL REFERENDUM
  • SEVEN. EBB AND FLOW, 1913-1921
  • EIGHT. THE TAFT COURT AND THE RETURN OF "NORMALCY"
  • NINE. THE LA FOLLETTE PROPOSAL
  • TEN. THE BORAH PROPOSAL
  • ELEVEN. THE SUPREME COURT CALMS THE TEMPEST
  • TWELVE. THE JUDICIAL ISSUE IN THE 1924 ELECTION
  • THIRTEEN. FINAL CONFLICTS, 1925-1937
  • CONCLUSION
  • INDEX