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Building the Judiciary: Law, Courts, and the Politics of Institutional Development. By Justin Crowe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 328p. $80.00 cloth, $35.00 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2013

Maria Popova
Maria Popova*
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McGill University
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Extract

Justin Crowe has written an accessible, thorough, and compelling history of the institutional development of the US Supreme Court and the federal judiciary it sits atop, from their inconspicuous inception in February 1790 to their current status as, perhaps, the most powerful judiciary in the world.

Type
Critical Dialogue
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 216 - 218
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013 

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