Blackstone in America
Subtitle: selected essays of Kathryn Preyer
By: Mary Sarah Bilder, Maeva Marcus, R. Kent Newmyer.
Contributors: Marcus, Maeva, 1941-; Newmyer, R. Kent.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780521490870
Subjects: Preyer, Kathryn; a Common law -- United States -- History; Judicial review -- United States -- History; Federal government -- United States -- History; Justice,  Administration of -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Federalist policy and the Judiciary Act of 1801; title: The appointment of Chief Justice Marshall; title: The midnight judges; title: U.S. v. Callender : judge and jury in a Republican society; title: Penal measures in the American colonies : an overview; title: Crime, the criminal law, and reform in post-revolutionary Virginia; title: Jurisdiction to punish : federal authority, federalism, and the common law of crimes in the early Republic; title: Cesare Beccaria and the founding fathers; title: Two enlightened criminal law reformers : Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and Peter Leopold.