Antecedents and beginnings to 1801
By: by Julius Goebel, Jr.
Contributors: United States. Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.
Series: History of the Supreme Court of the United States -- v. 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780521760010
Subjects: United States. -- Supreme Court -- History; Judicial power -- United States -- History; Judicial review -- United States -- History; Constitutional history -- United States
Notes: At head of series title: The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.

Previously published: Macmillan Pub. Co. 1971.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 824-840) and index.
Table of contents: title: The path of the law : old world to new; title: Th traditions of judicial control over legislation; title: The new states and the principle of constitutional authority; title: The Constitutional Convention and the judiciary; title: The appeal to the people and the molding of opinion; title: The framers as propagandists; title: The raising I : the judicial before the states; title: The raising II : the judicial before the states; title: Unfinished business : the Bill of Rights; title: The Judiciary Act of 1789; title: The Process Acts; title: The Circuit Courts : organization, civil and appellate jurisdiction; title: The Circuit Courts : criminal jurisdiction; title: The Supreme Court : appellate practice; title: The Supreme Court : political and constitutional issues I; title: The Supreme Court : political and constitutional issues II.