A Muted Fury : Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937.

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Acknowledgments ; Introduction; ONE ; The Seeds of Discord; TWO; Challenges to Constitutional Orthodoxy; THREE; Meliorative Measures; FOUR ; Reconstructing the Bench; FIVE; The Judicial Recall Movement; SIX; Theodore Roosevelt and the Judicial Referendum; SEVEN; Ebb and Flow, 1913-1921; EIGHT; The Taft Court and the Return of Normalcy -- NINE; The La Follette Proposal; TEN; The Borah Proposal; ELEVEN; The Supreme Court Calms the Tempest; TWELVE; The Judicial Issue in the 1924 Election; THIRTEEN; Final Conflicts, 1925-1937; Conclusion; INDEX.

For half a century before 1937, populists, progressives, and labor leaders complained bitterly that a ""judicial oligarchy"" impeded social and economic reform by imposing crippling restraints on trade unions and nullifying legislation that regulated business corporations. A Muted Fury, the first study of this neglected chapter in American political and legal history, explains the origins of hostility toward the courts during the Progressive Era, examines in detail the many measures that antagonists of the judiciary proposed for the curtailment of judicial power, and evaluates the su.

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