Debates on the federal judiciary
Subtitle: a documentary history
By: compiled and edited by Bruce A. Ragsdale
Contributors: Holt, Daniel S., compiler; Federal Judicial Center; United States. Federal Judicial History Office
Publisher: Federal Judicial Center, Federal Judicial History Office
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Subjects: Courts; Sources; History
Notes: Volume 2 compiled and edited by Daniel S. Holt.

Shipping list no.: 2014-0005-S.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Also available from the Federal Judicial Center website: http://www.fjc.gov.
Table of contents: title: Vol. I (1787-1875): The Federal convention, debates on the judiciary; title: Ratification debates on the judiciary; title: The Judiciary Act of 1789; title: Rethinking the Judiciary Act of 1789; title: Circuit riding; title: Nonjudicial responsibilities of federal judges; title: The suability of states and the origins of the Eleventh Amendment; title: The Judiciary Act of 1801; title: The repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801; title: Impeachment and the trial of Justice Samuel Chase; title: Judicial tenure; title: Judicial review and federalism; title: Circuit riding in an expanding nation; title: Civil War and the reorganization of the federal judiciary; title: Expanding federal jurisdiction: the Jurisdiction and Removal Act of 1875.; title: Vol. II (1875-1939): Court organization and jurisdiction; title: Popular politics and judicial power; title: Efficiency, administration, and uniformity in the federal courts; title: Executive power and judicial independence.