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• Sink or swim : the first decade
• John Marshall takes charge : establishing power
• Justice by Shay, stagecoach, steamboat, train : riding circuit
• Wives, children-- husbands : supporting roles
• Yes, Mr. President : appointment and confirmation
• Learning the ropes : a rookie arrives
• Inside the courtroom : views of the bench
• Silver tongues and quill pens : oral argument
• Nine justices, one bench : building consensus
• (Not so) good behavior : discord and feuds
• A peek inside chambers : clerk stories
• "Welcome to the chain gang" : managing the workload
• Timing it right : stepping down.

In the first Supreme Court history told primarily through eyewitness accounts from Court insiders, Clare Cushman provides readers with a behind-the-scenes look at the people, practices, and traditions that have shaped an American institution for more than 200 years. This entertaining and enlightening tour of the Supreme Court's colorful personalities and inner workings will be of interest to all readers of American political and legal history.
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• Foreword by Chief Justice John C. Roberts, Jr. Introduction
• Chapter 1: Sink or Swim: The First Decade
• Chapter 2: John Marshall Takes Charge: Establishing Power
• Chapter 3: Justice by Shay, Stagecoach, Steamboat, Train: Riding Circuit
• Chapter 4: Wives, Children...Husbands: Supporting Roles
• Chapter 5: Yes, Mr. President: Appointing and Confirmation
• Chapter 6: Learning the Ropes: A Rookie Arrives
• Chapter 7: Inside the Courtroom: Views of the Bench
• Chapter 8: Silver Tongues and Quill Pens: Oral Argument
• Chapter 9: Nine Justices, One Bench: Building Consensus
• Chapter 10: (Not So) Good Behavior: Discord and Feuds
• Chapter 11: A Peek Inside Chambers: Clerk Stories
• Chapter 12: "Welcome to the Chain Gang": Managing the Work Load
• Chapter 13: Timing It Right: Stepping Down Acknowledgments Justices of the Supreme Court Notes Index.
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In the first Supreme Court history told primarily through eyewitness accounts from Court insiders, Clare Cushman provides readers with a behind-the-scenes look at the people, practices, and traditions that have shaped an American institution for more than 200 years. This entertaining and enlightening tour of the Supreme Court's colorful personalities and inner workings will be of interest to all readers of American political and legal history.
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• Foreword by Chief Justice John C. Roberts, Jr. Introduction
• Chapter 1: Sink or Swim: The First Decade
• Chapter 2: John Marshall Takes Charge: Establishing Power
• Chapter 3: Justice by Shay, Stagecoach, Steamboat, Train: Riding Circuit
• Chapter 4: Wives, Children...Husbands: Supporting Roles
• Chapter 5: Yes, Mr. President: Appointing and Confirmation
• Chapter 6: Learning the Ropes: A Rookie Arrives
• Chapter 7: Inside the Courtroom: Views of the Bench
• Chapter 8: Silver Tongues and Quill Pens: Oral Argument
• Chapter 9: Nine Justices, One Bench: Building Consensus
• Chapter 10: (Not So) Good Behavior: Discord and Feuds
• Chapter 11: A Peek Inside Chambers: Clerk Stories
• Chapter 12: "Welcome to the Chain Gang": Managing the Work Load
• Chapter 13: Timing It Right: Stepping Down Acknowledgments Justices of the Supreme Court Notes Index.
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In the first Supreme Court history told primarily through eyewitness accounts from Court insiders, Clare Cushman provides readers with a behind-the-scenes look at the people, practices, and traditions that have shaped an American institution for more than 200 years. This entertaining and enlightening tour of the Supreme Court's colorful personalities and inner workings will be of interest to all readers of American political and legal history.
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• Foreword by Mary Beth Tinker (of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969)--
• Chapter 1: The Constitution and the Courts of the United States--
• Chapter 2: The Heart and Soul of the Constitution: Freedom of Expression--
• Chapter 3: All the News the School Sees Fit to Print: Freedom of the Student Press--
• Chapter 4: One Nation, Under the Constitution: Public Schools and the Religion Classes--
• Chapter 5: The Fourth Amendment: Searches of Students and Their Belongings--
• Chapter 6: Discipline and Punishment: Due Process and the Eighth Amendment--
• Chapter 7: Equal Protection: The Struggle for Integrated Schools and Cases About Drawing Lines by Race, Wealth, Gender-- Citizenship and Sexual Orientation--
• Chapter 8: Harassment in the Halls: Sexual Harassment and Bullying on Campus--
• Chapter 9: The Health Of The Student Body: Disability, Privacy, Pregnancy, and Sexuality-- Appendix: Supreme Court Confirmation Exercise: You Be the Judge! Constitution of the United States-- Glossary-- Index.
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We the Students is designed to help America's young people achieve what the author calls "constitutional literacy." This unique reference engages students by examining Supreme Court cases that directly affect them. The cases involve issues that are of high interest to students, such as drug use, sex and censorship, and freedom of speech and thought. The newly revised second edition of We the Students includes: New Supreme Court cases along with a few noteworthy state and federal cases. More examples and exercises to provide readers with a greater understanding of constitutional law in a way in which they can relate and understand. Expert commentary about protecting students from bullying. New or expanded coverage of affirmative action; drug testing; discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, or citizenship; student disabilities; and religion in school. We the Students is designed for students and teachers in regular and AP social studies, history, journalism, constitutional law, and government classes. The educational emphasis in We the Students is on constitutional knowledge, critical thinking, persuasive argument, and values clarification. Students will learn the answers to questions such as: Why does the Court decide a case one way rather than the other? Why does law change over time and what makes it change? We the Students includes a bibliography at the end of each chapter and suggestions for further reading.
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• John Jay / Clare Cushman
• John Rutledge / Clare Cushman
• William Cushing / Clare Cushman
• James Wilson / Andre C. Laviano
• John Blair, Jr. / Clare Cushman
• James Iredell / Danny Moody
• Thomas Johnson / James O'Hara
• William Paterson / Charles F. Hickox III and Andrew C. Laviano
• Samuel Chase / James Haw
• Oliver Ellsworth / James Buchanan
• Bushrod Washington / Clare Cushman
• Alfred Moore / James Buchanan
• John Marshall / Herbert A. Johnson
• William Johnson / David T. Pride
• Brockholst Livingston / Kathleen Shurtleff
• Thomas Todd / Peter Gaudioso
• Gabriel Duvall / James O'Hara
• Joseph Story / David T. Pride
• Smith Thompson / Donald Roper
• Robert Trimble / John S. Goff
• John McLean / Burnett Anderson
• Henry Baldwin / Robert D. Ilisevich
• James M. Wayne / Burnett Anderson
• Roger B. Taney / Clare Cushman
• Philip P. Barbour / David T. Pride
• John Catron / Burnett Anderson
• John McKinley / F. Thorton Miller
• Peter V. Daniel / John P. Frank
• Samuel Nelson / Clare Cushman
• Levi Woodbury / Vincent J. Capowski
• Robert C. Grier / Burnett Anderson
• Benjamin R. Curtis / Kathleen Shurtleff
• John A. Campbell / Burnett Andserson
• Nathan Clifford / David T. Pride
• Noah H. Swayne / Burnett Anderson
• Samuel F. Miller / Burnett Anderson
• David Davis / Leonard M. Niehoff
• Stephen J. Field / David T. Pride
• Salmon P. Chase / Clare Cushman
• William Strong / Burnett Anderson
• Joseph P. Bradley / Jonathan Lurie
• Ward Hunt / Melissa S. Hardin
• Morrison R. Waite / David T. Pride
• John Marshall Harlan / Loren P. Beth
• William B. Woods / Thomas E. Baynes, Jr.
• Stanley Matthews / Donald Roper
• Horace Gray / Burnett Anderson
• Samuel Blatchford / Kathleen Shurtleff
• Lucius Q.C. Lamar / David T. Pride
• Melville W. Fuller / David T. Pride
• David J. Brewer / Brian J. Moline
• Henry B. Brown / Robert M. Warner
• George Shiras, Jr. / Roy M. Mersky
• Howell E. Jackson / Clare Cushman
• Edward Douglass White / Clare Cushman
• Rufus W. Peckham / Burnett Anderson
• Joseph McKenna / James O'Hara
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Gary J. Aichele
• William R. Day / Kathleen Shurtleff
• William H. Moody / Paul T. Heffron
• Horace H. Lurton / Burnett Anderson
• Charles Evans Hughes / Burnett Anderson
• Willis Van Devanter / David T. Pride
• Joseph R. Lamar / Burnett Anderson
• Mahlon Pitney / Burnett Anderson
• James C. McReynolds / David T. Pride
• Louis D. Brandeis / Philippa Strum
• John H. Clarke / Clare Cushman
• William Howard Taft / David T. Pride
• George Sutherland / Jay S. Bybee
• Pierce Butler / William Reilly
• Edward T. Sanford / Burnett Anderson
• Harlan Fiske Stone / Louis Lusky
• Owen J. Roberts / Jay S. Bybee
• Benjamin N. Cardozo / David T. Pride
• Hugo L. Black / Hugo L. Black, Jr.
• Stanley F. Reed / John D. Fassett
• Felix Frankfurter / Philip B. Kurland
• William O. Douglas / James C. Duram and Judith Johnson
• Frank Murphy / Sidney Fine
• James F. Byrnes / Winfred B. Moore, Jr.
• Robert H. Jackson / James M. Marsh
• Wiley B. Rutledge / Louis H. Pollak
• Harold H. Burton / Jennifer M. Lowe
• Fred M. Vinson / John Henry Hatcher
• Tom C. Clark / Robert M. Langran
• Sherman Minton / David N. Atkinson
• Earl Warren / Bernard Schwartz
• John Marshall Harlan / Nathan Lewin
• William J. Brennan, Jr. / Stephen Wermiel
• Charles E. Whittaker / Alan C. Kohn
• Potter Stewart / Gil Kujovich
• Byron R. White / Dennis J. Hutchinson
• Arthur J. Goldberg / Kathleen Shurtleff
• Abe Fortas / Clare Cushman
• Thurgood Marshall / Susan Low Bloch
• Warren E. Burger / Burnett Anderson
• Harry A. Blackmun / Alan S. Madans
• Lewis F. Powell, Jr. / William J. Stuntz
• William H. Rehnquist / Craig M. Bradley
• John Paul Stevens / Robert J. Sickels and Clare Cushman
• Sandra Day O'Connor / Clare Cushman
• Antonin Scalia / Sally Katzen
• Anthony M. Kennedy / Richard K. Willard
• David H. Souter / John J. Sullivan
• Clarence Thomas / Christopher Landau
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Edith Lampson Roberts
• Stephen G. Breyer / Jane Manners
• John G. Roberts, Jr. / Clare Cushman
• Samuel A. Alito, Jr. / Jennifer M. Lowe
• Sonia Sotomayor / Clare Cushman
• Elena Kagan / Clare Cushman.

The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies 1789-2012, Third Edition provides a single-volume reference profiling every Supreme Court justice from John Jay through Elena Kagan. An original essay on each justice paints a vivid picture of his or her individuality as shaped by family, education, pre-Court career, and the times in which he or she lived. Each biographical essay also presents the major issues on which the justice presided. Essays are arranged in the order of the justices' appointments. Lively anecdotes along with portraits, photographs, and political cartoons enrich the text and deepen readers' understanding of the justices and of the Court. The volume includes an extensive bibliography and is indexed for easy research access. New in this edition are: a foreword by Chief Justice John G. Roberts; a revised essay on Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist; updated essays on sitting or recently retired members of the court; new biographies for Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel A. Alito, Elena Kagan, and Sonia M. Sotomayor; an updated listing of members of the Supreme Court with appointment and confirmation dates; and an updated bibliography with key sources on the Supreme Court and the justices. For insightful background and lively commentary on the individuals who have served on the Supreme Court of the United States, there is no better reference than this updated new volume. This is a vital reference work for researchers, students, and others interested in the Supreme Court's past, present, and future.
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This title details the cases, ideas, and people who have blazed the trail to equality. Starting in the post-Civil War era, the text documents the "Romantic Paternalism" attitude to women at the time, continuing to discuss changes through suffrage, to the end of the 20th century.
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This title details the cases, ideas, and people who have blazed the trail to equality. Starting in the post-Civil War era, the text documents the "Romantic Paternalism" attitude to women at the time, continuing to discuss changes through suffrage, to the end of the 20th century.
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