Antecedents and beginnings to 1801
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Antecedents and beginnings to 1801
(History of the Supreme Court of the United States, v. 1)
Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Note
"An earlier version of this book was published by Macmillan Publishing Company in 1971"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 824-840
Includes index
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Description
Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801 is the first of twelve volumes in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. In this first volume, Julius Goebel Jr. details the creation of a national judiciary in the United States under the Act of 1789 and traces the Supreme Court's development through its first decade of existence. The book is organized into three parts. The first part describes the background of American constitutionalism. Goebel then goes on to depict the Constitutional Convention, the ensuing debate over ratification, and the framing of the Bill of Rights. In the final part of the book, he explains how early legislation affected the judiciary and the initial experience of the circuit courts and of the Supreme Court. These three parts are divided into seventeen chapters, together with a statistical analysis of the business of the Supreme Court from 1789 to 1801 and substantial notes on manuscript sources.
Table of Contents
- 1. The path of the law - old world to new
- 2. The traditions of judicial control over legislation
- 3. The new states and the principle of constitutional authority
- 4. The continental congress and national judicial authority
- 5. The constitutional convention and the judiciary
- 6. The appeal to the people and the molding of opinion
- 7. The framers as propagandists
- 8. The raising I: the judicial before the states
- 9. The raising II: the judicial before the states
- 10. Unfinished business - the Bill of Rights
- 11. The Judiciary Act of 1789
- 12. The process acts
- 13. The circuit courts - organization, civil and appellate jurisdiction
- 14. The circuit courts - criminal jurisdiction
- 15. The Supreme Court - appellate practice
- 16. The Supreme Court - political and constitutional issues I
- 17. The Supreme Court - political and constitutional issues II
- Appendix: the business of the Supreme Court, 1789-1801, appellate jurisdiction
- Manuscript sources - abbreviations of locations
- Location of manuscript federal judicial records consulted
- Manuscripts other than federal judicial records
- Contemporary newspapers and periodicals cited
- Short titles and abbreviations
- Select bibliography.
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