Christian Nationalist Crusade
"Impeach Supreme Court" Christian Nationalist Crusade. Impeach Supreme Court: A Petition to Impeach Chief Justice Warren, And Others [Caption Title]. Los Angeles: Christian Nationalist Crusade, [1962?]. 11" x 8-1/2" flier, petition to recto in red and black, table to verso captioned "How the Present Members of the U.S. Supreme Court Voted on Issues Involving Communism." Light toning, two horizontal fold lines. Fine. $150. * The movement to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren began after the landmark 1954 verdict in Brown v. Board of Education, where the Supreme Court held that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Driven by the John Birch Society, a number of groups began to coalesce around pro-segregation, anti-communist and Christian nationalist ideals. They sought the impeachment of Warren and other justices, whom they claimed were engineering a campaign of judicial overreach. This flier was produced by the Christian Nationalist Crusade, an antisemitic and racist political advocacy group. One side contains a petition to impeach Earl Warren and unnamed "others" after the 1962 ruling in Engle v. Vitale, which held that the Establishment Clause prohibits mandatory prayer in public schools. The other side lists the nine justices on the court and the percentage of decisions they made "in favor of Reds" as of 1958. Hugo Black has a remarkable 100% pro-Red record, with William O. Douglas coming in second at 95%. (The least communist justice was John M. Harlan, who only made pro-Red decisions 58% of the time.) OCLC locates 1 copy (UC-Davis).
Honore, Tony
Honore, Tony. Making Law Bind: Essays Legal and Philosophical. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. vii, 274 pp. Publisher's original navy cloth, with gilt stamped spine. Near fine, in a very good dust jacket. $75. * Honore, a frequent collaborator with H.L.A. Hart, offers a series of essays "addressed to the ordinary lawyer and laymen" that offer a "sketch of a distinctive legal philosophy" (Preface, vi). Topics include "How is Law Possible," "The Basic Norm of Society" and "The Human Community and Majority Rule."
Terry, William Henry, Editor
Terry, William Henry, Editor. Judge Jenkins: The Learned, Loyal and Courageous Judge, Who was Kept Prisoner in the Tower, Newgate and Elsewhere for Many Years After Being Sentnced to Death by the House of Commons. London: G. Richards and H. Toulmin, 1929. 176 pp. Original black cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Ex-library with property stamps to endleaves, half-title and title page, otherwise internally clean. $45. * Contents: Introduction. Short Biography of Judge Jenkins.; Judge Jenkins' Lex Terrae, with Introductory Letter to the Inns of Courts.; Judge Jenkins' Answer to Some Seeming Objections of Master Prynne.; Judge Jenkins' Vindication.; Answer Thereto by H.P. [i.e. Henry Parker] of Lincoln's Inn.; Judge Jenkins' Cordial; A Reply to H.P.; Rejoinder by H.P. to Judge Jenkins' Cordial.; Willm. Ball of Barkham; In Answer to Several Tenets of Judge Jenkins.; Judge Jenkins' Plea to the Earl of Manchester and the Speaker of the House of Commons Sitting in Chancery.; Impeachment of Judge Jenkins at the House of Commons Bar [For High Treason, 21 February, 1647]; Remonstrance of Judge Jenkins to the Lords and Commons.; Another Account of What Passed at the Impeachment of Judge Jenkins at the Bar of the House of Commons.
Jackson, Frederick H.
Jackson, Frederick H. Simeon Eben Baldwin: Lawyer, Social Scientist, Statesman. New York: King's Crown Press, Columbia University, 1955. xi, 291 pp., frontispiece. Publisher's original green cloth, with stamped spine and front cover. Shelfwear and rubbing to boards, else good. $25.
Prucha, Francis Paul
2 volumes. Prucha, Francis Paul. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. 2 Volumes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. xxxii, 608 pp.; 610-1302 pp., maps. Publisher's original blue cloth, with stamped spines. Light shelfwear, boards rubbed. Ex-library, with stamps to title pages, top page edges, piece of card pocket to free front endpapers, and location labels to spines. $100. * Contents. Vol. 1. The Colonial Experience. Formative Years. Indian Removal. American Expansion and the Reservation System. The Civil War Years. The Peace Policy. Vol. 2. Americanizing the American Indians. The Nation's Wards. The Indian New Deal. Termination. Indian Self-Determination. The Great Father was widely praised and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. It is a comprehensive history of the relations between the U.S. government and the Indians. Covering the two centuries from the Revolutionary War to 1980, the book traces the development of American Indian policy and the growth of the bureaucracy created to implement that policy. (OCLC).
Parker, James Reid
Parker, James Reid. Attorneys At Law: Forbes, Hathaway, Bryan & Devore. Garden City, [NY]: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. x, 247 pp. Hardcover in moderately worn price clipped dust jacket. Internally clean. $25. * This book originated as a collection of short stories in in the New Yorker. In an unpublished letter to William Garden Rae dated February 28, 1947, Zechariah Chafee recommended it for its portrayal of "a single large New York law office of a particularly undesirable type" that offered "[e]xamples of what every decent lawyer should avoid."
Mathews, Nieves
Mathews, Nieves. Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xiii, 592 pp., frontispiece. Publisher's original black cloth, with stamped spine. Light shelfwear, very good. In a near fine dust jacket. $25. * Beyond his own country Francis Bacon is remembered as a great man, founder of modern science and philosophy, a just judge and a teacher of kings. In England and America, however, he is seen more as a cruel, corrupt and power-hungry politician. Which appraisal is correct? In this fascinating re-evaluation of one of Britain's most significant figures, Nieves Mathews examines the charges against Bacon and reveals how distorted facts can be recast as historical truths. In 1621 Bacon fell from power as Lord Chancellor, the highest position in the land. Charged with accepting bribes, he was convicted, fined, imprisoned and exiled from the Court. He died five years later, disgraced and deeply in debt. In this illuminating study of the Jacobean administration - a system which depended on corruption at every level - Nieves Mathews shows Bacon to have been among the least tainted of the King's officials, the scapegoat in a political conspiracy aimed at dislodging the royal favourite. The destruction of Bacon's reputation followed Thomas Babington Macaulay's eloquent 'Essay on Bacon', published in 1837. Macaulay's depiction of a cloven-hearted genius, at once the greatest and meanest of mankind, launched a tireless search among Bacon's biographers for evidence of malice and corruption. Now, with the benefit of recent scholarship, Nieves Mathews portrays a man both single-minded and fallible, with qualities and flaws. Her penetrating reappraisal rescues Bacon from a long tradition of abuse and misrepresentation. (OCLC).
Cardozo, Benjamin
New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. From the Library of Frederick Bernays Wiener Cardozo, Benjamin N. [1870-1938]. The Paradoxes of Legal Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. v, 142, [1] pp. Original cloth, gilt title to spine, blind frames to boards, gilt Columbia University Press crest to center of front board. Light shelfwear, light fading to spine, some fraying to head of spine, illegible owner signature in pencil and bookplate of Frederick Bernays Wiener to front pastedown, moderate toning to interior. $350. * First edition, first printing. One of Cardozo's most important books, The Paradoxes of Legal Science is a classic statement of juristic pragmatism. As Goodhart has pointed out, it also reveals the non-legal sources, such as Greek philosophy, that informed his work. At the time of this book's publication Cardozo was the chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, a post he held until his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1932. Wiener [1906-1996] was an authority on military and constitutional law. He had a long career in government, the U.S. Army (active and Reserve) and academia. While a lawyer in the Solicitor General's Office he successfully argued the landmark 1957 Supreme Court case Reid v. Covert, which established that non-military U.S. citizens outside of the territorial jurisdiction of the United States cannot be tried by a U.S. military tribunal. They retain the protections guaranteed by the United States Constitution. "no agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on the Congress, or on any other branch of Government, which is free from the restraints of the Constitution." Goodhart, The Jewish Lawyers of the Common Law 59-60.
Burton, Jeffrey
Burton, Jeffrey. Indian Territory and the United States, 1866-1906: Courts, Government, and the Movement for Oklahoma Statehood. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. xix, 314 pp., maps. Publisher's orange hardcover, with stamped spine. Near fine, in a near fine dust jacket. $25. * This innovative reappraisal of federal courts in Indian Territory shows how the United States Congress used judicial reform to suppress the Five Tribes' governments and clear the way for Oklahoma statehood. Historian Jeffrey Burton traces the changing relationship between the federal government and the distinctive institutions of the Indian republics, from the post-Civil War Reconstruction treaties to the Enabling Act that carried Oklahoma to the threshold of statehood. Although this is not a partisan statement for or against tribal sovereignty, Burton demonstrates how judicial reform, by extending the authority of the United States in Indian Territory, undermined the governments of the five republics until abolition of the tribal courts spelled the end of self-rule. Marshaling a great array of historical material from federal and tribal archives, contemporary newspapers, and other sources, Burton penetrates the jurisdictional fog that descended on Indian Territory during the 1890s, when an influx of settlers and a mounting backlog of citizenship cases and other civil disputes demanded a Coherent court system. Most fascinating is his analysis of the term of Isaac C. Parker - which affords a deeper understanding of the Western District of Arkansas without the sensationalism usually accompanying accounts of "the hanging judge." (OCLC).
