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The Court and Democracy
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The First Hundred Years
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LAWS AND AMENDMENTS
Sedition Act of 1918
NEWS MEDIA
"The Supreme Court Swings the Ax" -- THE NATION (January 15, 1936)
SPEECHES AND PUBLIC STATEMENTS
People's Party Platform (1896)
President Roosevelt's Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary (March 9, 1937)
MEMORANDA
The "Brandeis Brief" from Muller v. Oregon (1908)
POLITICAL CARTOONS
"Ex-Judge David Davis (Now Senator) at Home" -- HARPERS WEEKLY (February 17, 1877)
"Mr. President, I Gave You A Big Vote of Confidence..." -- RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH, Fred O. Seibel (1937)
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