Perfect for history and U.S. government students, this two-volume set explores the fundamentals of the highest court in our Nation. The Supreme Court of the United States is an A-Z encyclopedia for students, with a thorough coverage of pertinent photographs, political cartoons, and replicas of primary documents, courtroom sketches, woodcut illustrations, flow charts, chronologies, and maps. Three appendixes offer terms of the justices, a schematic of the Supreme Court and visitor's information, and Web sites, and suggestions for further reading. The Pursuit of Justice analyzes the thirty cases that, in the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court justices and leading civics educators and legal historians, are the most important for American citizens to understand. Each chapter includes a narrative account, focusing on leading personalities involved in the case(s), and one or more primary source documents relevant to the case. An appendix summarizes an additional 100 cases that are significant to American history and included in state history and civics standards.