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- The Hughes Court
- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Additional material
- Additional material
- The Hughes Court
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I The Opening Years
- Section A: Setting the Stage
- Section B: The False Dawn
- Section C: Crisis
- Section D: The New Constitutional Regime
- Chapter 14 After the Storm: Personnel and Organization
- Chapter 15 Consolidating the New Constitutional Regime
- Chapter 16 Consolidating the New Constitutional Regime
- Chapter 17 Consolidating the New Constitutional Regime
- Chapter 18 Toward a Theory of Pluralism
- Part II Continuities
- Part III New Approaches Begin to Emerge
- Historiographical Essay
- Index
Chapter 18 - Toward a Theory of Pluralism
from Section D: The New Constitutional Regime
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
- The Hughes Court
- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Additional material
- Additional material
- The Hughes Court
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I The Opening Years
- Section A: Setting the Stage
- Section B: The False Dawn
- Section C: Crisis
- Section D: The New Constitutional Regime
- Chapter 14 After the Storm: Personnel and Organization
- Chapter 15 Consolidating the New Constitutional Regime
- Chapter 16 Consolidating the New Constitutional Regime
- Chapter 17 Consolidating the New Constitutional Regime
- Chapter 18 Toward a Theory of Pluralism
- Part II Continuities
- Part III New Approaches Begin to Emerge
- Historiographical Essay
- Index
Summary
This Chapter details the initial hints of a new account of constitutional review, examining in detail the development of and the theory underlying Justice Stone’s famous “Footnote Four” outlining the argument that Court should intervene only to enforce specific constitutional guarantees or to ensure that the political process was operating without impediment.
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- The Hughes CourtFrom Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941, pp. 408 - 420Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022