HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES by George Lee Haskins, Herbert A. Johnson ( 9780521519847 )

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HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

By:

George Lee Haskins, Herbert A. Johnson

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0521519845

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9780521519847

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 November, 2009

Series:

Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States

Pages:

704

Description:

Foundations of Power, the second volume of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, surveys the Court during the first fourteen years of John Marshall's tenure.

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Foundations of Power: John Marshall, 1801-1815 is the second volume of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. The volume covers the beginnings of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall and surveys the first fourteen years of John Marshall's tenure. The authors describe the judicial business transacted by the chief justice and the ten Associate Justices with whom he served during those years. They argue that John Marshall's great accomplishment as Chief Justice was to establish the rule of law as the basis of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence. The book chronicles how, by becoming 'a bulwark of an identifiable rule of law as distinct from the accommodations of politics', the relatively feeble institution of the 1790s moved toward the authoritative Marshall Court of 1819.

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21 b/w illus. 13 tables

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