The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics, 1835-1864

Haines, Charles Grove and Foster Sherwood. The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics 1835-1864. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957. x, 533 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-197-6. Cloth. $95. * Haines' untimely death while writing this the continuation to The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics 1789-1835 led to the work's completion by Haines' colleague at the University of California at Los Angeles, Foster H. Sherwood. This volume follows the Marshall years with a history of the Taney era, and examines the political and economic issues as well as the prominent legal issues of the era such as states rights and slavery that shaped the Court's decisions.Foster H. Sherwood is the author of 'The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics, 1835-1864', published 2001 under ISBN 9781584771975 and ISBN 1584771976.