relation of the judiciary to the Constitution
By: by William M. Meigs.
Publisher: Gaunt
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Holmes Beach, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781561699131
Subjects: Judicial power -- United States; Courts -- United States; Constitutional law -- United States
Notes: Originally published: New York : Neale Pub. Co., 1919.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The British colonies in North America; title: The public beliefs of our colonial days; title: Fundamental law and Coke's doctine during revolutionary days : conflicting legislation of the period and its effect on public opinion; title: Our first actual judicial decisions that laws violated the Constitution and were hence to be held void : recognition of this doctrine : its rapid spread; title: Rutgers v. Waddington : other like cases in state courts holding void state statutes in conflict with federal action : Congress urges the general use of the  judicial department to annul such laws of the states; title: Review: Bayard v. Singleton; title: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 : its adoption of the judicial method of voiding unconstitutional laws; title: The Constitution before the people, and the ratifying conventions; title: Rapid spread of the doctrine after 1789; title: The degree of conclusiveness attaching to judicial decisions : early beliefs in the subject : the future.