Seriatim : the Supreme Court before John Marshall /
"Seldom has American law seen a more towering figure than Chief Justice John Marshall. Indeed, Marshall is almost universally regarded as the 'father of the Supreme Court' and 'the jurist who started it all.' Yet even while acknowledging the indelible stamp Marshall put on t...
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New York University Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the Supreme Court before John Marshall / Scott Douglas Gerber
- "Honour, justice, and interest" : John Jay's Republican politics and statesmanship on the federal bench / Sandra Frances Vanburkleo
- John Rutledge : distinction and declension / James Haw
- Deconstructing William Cushing / Scott Douglas Gerber
- James Wilson : democratic theorist and Supreme Court justice / Mark D. Hall
- John Blair : "a safe and conscientious judge" / Wythe Holt
- James Iredell : revolutionist, constitutionalist, jurist / Willis P. Whichard
- William Paterson : small states' nationalist / Daniel A. Degnan, S.J.
- The verdict on Samuel Chase and his "apologist" / Stephen B. Presser
- Oliver Ellsworth : "I have sought the felicity and glory of your administration" / William R. Casto
- Heir apparent : Bushrod Washington and federal justice in the early republic / James R. Stoner, Jr.