The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress
Author: Alexander M. Bickel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780300022391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alexander M. Bickel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780300022391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Robarge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2000-02-28
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0313030294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Widely regarded as America's most important Chief Justice, John Marshall influenced our constitutional, political, and economic development as much as any American. He handed down landmark decisions on judicial review, federal-state relations, contracts, corporations, and commercial regulation during a thirty-four year tenure that encompassed five presidencies, a second war of independence, the demise of the first American party system, and the advent of Jacksonianism and market capitalism. This is the first interpretive study of Marshall's early life that emphasizes the formative influences on him before he joined the Court. By that time his character and attitudes were fully formed through his childhood in the Virginia gentry, his service in the state militia and Continental Army, and his work as a prominent lawyer, a Federalist, and a diplomat. Drawing heavily on Marshall's own writings, this study views his pre-Supreme Court life as a cumulative experience that formed the identity and value system that he brought to bear on his experiences as Chief Justice. Robarge examines Marshall's social and political education in the unique milieu of late 18th century Virginia for its own intrinsic interest, as well as for its relationship to his profound contribution to the Court. The events and situations that shaped Marshall's personality and attitudes directly influenced his leadership style. They also had a deep impact upon his efforts to establish an independent judiciary, to unify the nation through territorial expansion and a legal common market, and to revive the moribund Federalist party as a balance to the dominant Republicans led by the cousin he detested, Thomas Jefferson.
Author: Charles F. Hobson
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"John Marshall remains one of the towering figures in the landscape of American law. From the Revolution to the age of Jackson, he played a critical role in defining the "province of the judiciary" and the constitutional limits of legislative action. In this masterly study, Charles Hobson clarifies the coherence and thrust of Marshall's jurisprudence while keeping in sight the man as well as the jurist." "Hobson argues that contrary to his critics, Marshall was no ideologue intent upon appropriating the lawmaking powers of Congress. Rather, he was deeply committed to a principled jurisprudence that was based on a steadfast devotion to a "science of law" richly steeped in the common law tradition. As Hobson shows, such jurisprudence governed every aspect of Marshall's legal philosophy and court opinions, including his understanding of judicial review." "The chief justice, Hobson contends, did not invent judicial review (as many have claimed) but consolidated its practice by adapting common law methods to the needs of a new nation. In practice, his use of judicial review was restrained, employed almost exclusively against acts of the state legislatures. Ultimately, he wielded judicial review to prevent the states from undermining the power of a national government still struggling to establish sovereignty at home and respect abroad."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Richard Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-14
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1139496875
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Justices and Journalists examines whether justices are becoming more publicity-conscious and why that might be happening. The book discusses the motives of justices 'going public' and details their recent increased number of television and print interviews and amount of press coverage of their speeches. The book describes the interactions justices have with the journalists who cover them. These interactions typically are not discussed publicly by justices or journalists. The book explains why justices care about press and public relations, how they employ external strategies to affect press portrayals of themselves and their institution, and how and why journalists participate in that interaction. Drawing on the papers of Supreme Court justices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book examines these interactions over the history of the Court. It includes a content analysis of print and broadcast media coverage of Supreme Court justices covering a 40-year period from 1968 to 2007.
Author: John Campbell Baron Campbell
Publisher:
Published: 1851
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Campbell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-11-15
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 3368841270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author: John CAMPBELL (Baron Campbell.)
Publisher:
Published: 1858
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Trina E. Gray
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 0870203452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume profiles all the people who have served as Wisconsin Supreme Court justices and includes an introduction by Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson summarizing the court's history and its vision for the future.
Author: Laurence Tribe
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0805099093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An assessment of how the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is significantly influencing the nation's laws and reinterpreting the Constitution includes in-depth analysis of recent rulings and their implications.