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HAINES, CHARLES G. (1879–1948)

Charles Grove Haines was an eminent scholar of American constitutional history who taught political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1939 he was president of the American Political Science Association. His major books continue to be among the best on their subjects. His Revival of Natural Law Concepts (1930) is a comparative study of theories of FUNDAMENTAL LAW. The American Doctrine of Judicial Supremacy (revised edition, 1932) is the finest book on the history of JUDICIAL REVIEW from the standpoint of a critic of the institution. His Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics (volume I, 1944; volume II, posthumous and coauthored by Forest Sherwood, 1957), covering the period 1789 to 1864, is a trenchant history from the viewpoint of a Jeffersonian democrat.