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 The Supreme Court : United States _

By Gustavus Myers

For over a century the Supreme Court of the United States — has towered aloft in omnipotent sway over all other insti- tutions. Absolute and final, its decrees have gone deep into the history of the nation and have had their mighty effect upon the wars of the classes. This book is a comprehensive history of the development of capitalist resources, power and tactics, and of the great and continuing conflict of classes, It reveals the true sources of the primitive accumulation of wealth which, beginning with the appropriation of land and the dispossession of the workers, has extended to the elabo-

rate forms of capitalistic power existing today.

Palpably, a dominant class must have some supreme insti- 4 tution through which it can express its consecutive demands ; and enforce its will. In the United States the one all-potent | institution automatically responding to these demands and enforcing them has been the Supreme Court. Vested with absolute and unappealable power, it has been able, with a marvelously adaptable flexibility, to transmute that will not merely into law but into action. This History of the Supreme

- Court, being a narrative of the deeds of the chief bulwark of capitalism, constitutes at the same time the best history of the United States that has yet appeared. One large volume, 823 pages. $2.50.

CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY, | CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHERS, CHICAGO 4