Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: America’s Peculiar Institution 1
4. CHAPTER ONE. Declaring Judicial In de pen dence 14
5. CHAPTER TWO. Judicial Challenges in the Early Republic 30
6. CHAPTER THREE. Judicial Elections as Separation of Powers 57
7. CHAPTER FOUR. Panic and Trigger 84
8. CHAPTER FIVE. The American Revolutions of 1848 103
9. CHAPTER SIX. The Boom in Judicial Review 123
10. CHAPTER SEVEN. Reconstructing Independence 144
11. CHAPTER EIGHT. The Progressives’ Failed Solutions 159
12. CHAPTER NINE. The Great Depression, Crime, and the Revival of Appointment 177
13. CHAPTER TEN. The Puzzling Rise of Merit 208
14. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Judicial Plutocracy after 1980 241
15. Conclusion: Interests, Ideas, and Judicial Independence 267
16. Appendix A: Judicial Elections Timeline 276
17. Notes 295
18. Acknowledgments 369
19. Index 373