Carl Brent Swisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1005583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Brent Swisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl Brent |
| FAMILY NAME | Swisher |
| SIGNATURE | SWISHER C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
History over Law
History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Volume V
The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Vol. V
Journal Article The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Vol. V: The Taney Period, 1836–64. By Carl B. Swisher. (New York: Macmillan, 1974. xvii + 1041 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00.) Get access Kermit L. Hall Kermit L. Hall Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 2, September …
The Supreme Court and Conscription
Essay| June 01 1968 The Supreme Court and Conscription Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University Carl Brent Swisher, former president of the American Political Science Association, has lectured at many colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. His books on the Supreme Court include Roger B. Taney (Hamden: Shoe String Press, 1930, 1962), American Constitutional Development (Bost…
Poor Richard's Politicks
The Powers of Government. Volume I
Morrison R. Waite
The American Supreme Court
Journal Article The American Supreme Court. By Robert G. McCloskey. The Chicago History of American Civilization. Edited by Daniel J. Boorstin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. xii + 260 pp. Bibliographical essay and index. $5.00.) Get access Carl B. Swisher Carl B. Swisher The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 48, Issue 1, June 1961, P…
The Supreme Court and “The Moment of Truth”
This annual ceremony of our non-partisan Association is being held at a time when most political scientists are preoccupied with the events of a fateful national election. To avoid any implications of partisanship, it seems best on this occasion to eschew politics in the conventional sense and to concentrate on institutional analysis not applicable to the current conflict. This discussion will therefore deal with the Supreme Court and with the Co…
The Supreme Court in Modern Role
Justice William Johnson. The First Dissenter
Journal Article Justice William Johnson. The First Dissenter. Justice Musmanno Dissents. Justice Reed and the First Amendment. The Religion Clauses. The Supreme Court in Modern Role. The Supreme Court from Taft to Warren. The Constitution and the Supreme Court Get access Morgan D. G.Justice William Johnson. The First Dissenter. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1954. Pp. xv, 326.Musmanno M. A.Justice Musmanno Dissents. (With an Introd…
The Supreme Court in Modern Role
Journal Article The Supreme Court in Modern Role. By Carl Brent Swisher. (New York: New York University Press, 1958. x + 214 pp. Notes and index. $4.95.) Get access Francis H. Heller Francis H. Heller University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 45, Issue 2, September 1958, Pages 352–353, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902969 Published: 01 September 1958
America's Advocate
America's Advocate: Robert H. Jackson Gerhart Eugene C., America's Advocate: Robert H. Jackson. Indianapolis, New York: Bobbs, Merrill Company, Inc. xiii, 545 pp. $7.50. Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 1958, Pages 186–188, https://doi.org/10.2307/844479 Published: 01 April 1958
The Loyal and the Disloyal. Morton Grodzins The Torment of Secrecy. Edward A. Shils
The Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw
Journal Article The Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw. By Leonard W. Levy. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. x + 383 pp. Illustration, notes, appendix, bibliography, table of cases, and index. $6.50.) Get access Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 44, Issue 2, September 1957, Pages 360–…
Dred Scott One Hundred Years After
Charles Beard and the Constitution
Journal Article Charles Beard and the Constitution: A Critical Analysis of “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution.” By Robert E. Brown. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. viii + 219 pp. Index. $3.50.) Get access Carl B. Swisher Carl B. Swisher The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 43, Issue 2, November 1956, Pages 338–339, https…
The Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment
The Achievement of John MarshalI
Due Process of Law 1932-1949. Virginia Wood
Our More Perfect Union
Journal Article Our More Perfect Union: From Eighteenth-Century Principles to Twentieth-Century Practice, by Arthur N. Holcombe Get access Our More Perfect Union: From Eighteenth-Century Principles to Twentieth-Century Practice. By Arthur N. Holcombe. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1950. —xiii, 460 pp. $6.00. Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
The American Presidency in Action, 1789
The American Presidency in Action, 1789: A Study in Constitutional History. By James Hart. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. xv + 256 pp. $4.00.) Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 35, Issue 4, March 1949, Pages 680–681, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892677 Published: 01 March 1949
Mr. Justice Black
Journal Article Mr. Justice Black: The Man and His Opinions. By John P. Frank. Introduction by Charles A. Beard. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. xix + 357 pp. $4.00.) Get access Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 1949, Pages 546–547, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893065 Published: 01 December …
Liberty Against Government. Edward S. Corwin
The Great Rehearsal
The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States. By Carl Van Doren. (New York: The Viking Press, 1948. xii + 336 pp. $3.75.) Get access Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 35, Issue 1, June 1948, Pages 117–118, https://doi.org/10.2307/1895155 Published: 01 June …
The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy
Journal Article The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study of a Crisis in American Power Politics, by Robert H. Jackson Get access The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study of a Crisis in American Power Politics. By Robert H. Jackson. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.—xx, 361, iv pp. $3.00. Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Scie…
Dred Scott One Hundred Years After
The Supreme Court and the South
Research in Public Law
The Panel on Public Law is one of a number of such organizations which came into being under the auspices of the Committee on Research of the American Political Science Association. Its purpose is to survey research in public law as now conducted and to give such guidance to methods and areas of future research as is possible and as the members think desirable. Since the date of its organization in the summer of 1942, the Panel, with a somewhat f…
Civil Liberties in War Time
The Supreme Court in Transition
Federal Organization of Legal Functions
Varied tasks throughout the vast field of activities of the executive branch of the federal government can be performed only by persons with training in one of more branches of law. The tasks run all the way from the administration of locally established rules and regulations of the several government agencies to the argument of fundamentally important constitutional questions before the Supreme Court. Down through the years of American history t…
Stephen J. Field, Craftsman of the Law
Stephen J. Field, Craftsman of the Law. By Carl Brent Swisher. (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1930. viii + 473 pp. Illustrations. $4.00.) John C. Parish John C. Parish Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 18, Issue 1, June 1931, Pages 87–88, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897453 Published: 01 June 1931
Roger B. Taney
Journal Article Roger B. Taney. By Carl Brent Swisher and Roger B. Taney: Jacksonian Jurist. By Charles W. Smith, Jr. Get access Roy T. Nichols Roy T. Nichols University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 23, Issue 2, September 1936, Pages 270–272, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893289 Published: 01 September 1936
Roger B. Taney
Selected Papers of Homer Cummings
The Supreme Court in Transition
Federal Organization of Legal Functions
Varied tasks throughout the vast field of activities of the executive branch of the federal government can be performed only by persons with training in one of more branches of law. The tasks run all the way from the administration of locally established rules and regulations of the several government agencies to the argument of fundamentally important constitutional questions before the Supreme Court. Down through the years of American history t…
The Control of War Preparations in the United States
A devastating war crisis is forcing government officials and political scientists to re-examine the efforts of the United States in 1917 and 1918 to adjust a peace-time democratic governmental establishment to the efficient conduct of war activities. That experience, until recently deemed an aberration in American history, is immediately relevant to the current program of national defense. Certain of the vital political problems of the war years …
Civil Liberties in War Time
The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy
Journal Article The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study of a Crisis in American Power Politics, by Robert H. Jackson Get access The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study of a Crisis in American Power Politics. By Robert H. Jackson. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.—xx, 361, iv pp. $3.00. Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Scie…
War-Time Priorities in Research
In the report of the Association's Committee on War-time Services occurs the following passage: “It seems to the Committee that the customary individualism of the profession is a luxury that cannot be unimpaired in war-time; political scientists must not go through the war with a business-as-usual attitude toward research and critical writing. The crises upon the nation and awaiting the nation demand that the profession recognize priorities in it…
Modern Constitutional Development
Joseph B. Eastman-Public Servant
sion, the oldest and perhaps the ablest of the federal independent regulatory commissions. By contrast with public attitudes in 1919, when he had been watched suspiciously because of reports of radicalism, he had now come to be regarded as the most distinguished member of the commission. People in a position to know seemed not so much to identify Eastman with the commission as to identify the commission with Eastman. It was at times remarked loos…
Chief Justice Stone and the Supreme Court
The Age of Jackson
The Growth of Constitutional Power in the United States
Journal Article The Growth of Constitutional Power in the United States. By Carl Brent Swisher. Charles R. Walgreen Foundation Lectures. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. x+ 252 pp. Index. $2.50.) Get access Samuel H. Brockunier Samuel H. Brockunier Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 33, Issue 1, June 1946, Pages 134–135, https://doi.org/10.23…
The Famous Case of Myra Clark Gaines. Nolan B. Harmon, Jr
Research in Public Law
The Panel on Public Law is one of a number of such organizations which came into being under the auspices of the Committee on Research of the American Political Science Association. Its purpose is to survey research in public law as now conducted and to give such guidance to methods and areas of future research as is possible and as the members think desirable. Since the date of its organization in the summer of 1942, the Panel, with a somewhat f…
Brandeis
The Constitution and Civil Rights
The Great Rehearsal
The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States. By Carl Van Doren. (New York: The Viking Press, 1948. xii + 336 pp. $3.75.) Get access Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 35, Issue 1, June 1948, Pages 117–118, https://doi.org/10.2307/1895155 Published: 01 June …
The Supreme Court and the South
The American Presidency in Action, 1789
The American Presidency in Action, 1789: A Study in Constitutional History. By James Hart. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. xv + 256 pp. $4.00.) Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 35, Issue 4, March 1949, Pages 680–681, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892677 Published: 01 March 1949
Mr. Justice Black
Journal Article Mr. Justice Black: The Man and His Opinions. By John P. Frank. Introduction by Charles A. Beard. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. xix + 357 pp. $4.00.) Get access Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 1949, Pages 546–547, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893065 Published: 01 December …
Liberty Against Government. Edward S. Corwin
Our More Perfect Union
Journal Article Our More Perfect Union: From Eighteenth-Century Principles to Twentieth-Century Practice, by Arthur N. Holcombe Get access Our More Perfect Union: From Eighteenth-Century Principles to Twentieth-Century Practice. By Arthur N. Holcombe. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1950. —xiii, 460 pp. $6.00. Carl Brent Swisher Carl Brent Swisher The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
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