Executive Disorder: The Subversion of the United States Supreme Court, 1914-1940
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1453652647 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Executive Disorder follows the career of US Attorney General and Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds, who advocated states rights, a true interpretation of the Constitution, and sound currency based on the gold standard. Under Taft, McReynolds was one of the authors of the Judicial Code. McReynolds, best known for his opposition to New Deal policies, was joined by VanDevanter, Sutherland and Butler, who were sometimes called "the Four Horsemen." Executive Disorder traces the use and abuse of executive power to establish policies and organizations that were later struck down as unconstitutional by t
After a career in Education, she began to research her family's history and conducted an extensive study in original documents in Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. She took her Master of Library Science Degree at Columbia University. . Ann McReynolds Bush attended the State University of New York where she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English L
"A Very Relevant History" according to Gerard Reinhardt. This addition to the political histories of the first half of the twentieth century traces the arc of the legal career of James Clark MacReynolds, from government attorney ardently enforcing the then-recently enacted antitrust statutes (a vast expansion of federal powers) to Supreme Court Justice defending the limits of federal power enshrined in the Constitution. The inevitable conflict with FDR's short srift approach to such limitations as obstacles to implementation of New Deal statutes c. Len said Belongs in every US library. This is really a remarkable piece of Americana that portrays through Supreme Court decisions the development of much of the law that we live by today. The focus on Justice McReynolds gives color and depth to the continous struggle needed to restrain abuses by the Executive Branch. What many would consider a dry subject morphs into the form of a novel except that the superb details and references give it a ring of truth and accuracy that cannot be denied. It belongs in the library of anyone i. A superb work on Supreme Court history and philosophy If you are a lawyer or a libertarian, you are doubtless aware that the headlong rush to trample the Constitutional limitations on governmental power sprang largely from events during FDR's presidency. The presidential and congressional policies then adopted--which were ultimately sanctioned by the Supreme Court--led inexorably to the nanny state that we "enjoy" today.But you have almost certainly never heard the compelling and powerful story of that era as seen through the eyes of one of the
About the Author Ann McReynolds Bush attended the State University of New York where she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature. After a career in Education, she began to research her family's history and conducted an extensive study in original documents in Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. . She took her Master of Library Science Degree at Columbia University