Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (657 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814731147 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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They examine such influential justices as John Jay, John Rutledge, William Cushing, James Wilson, John Blair, James Iredell, William Paterson, Samuel Chase, Oliver Ellsworth, and Bushrod Washington. Seldom has American law seen a more towering figure than Chief Justice John Marshall. The ten essays in this tightly edited volume were especially commissioned for the book, each by the leading authority on his or her particular subject. The result is a fascinating window onto the origins of the most powerful court in the world, and on American constitutionalism itself.. Indeed, Marshall is almost universally regarded as the "father of the Supreme Court" and "the jurist who started it all."Yet even while acknowledging the indelible stamp Marshall put on the Supreme Court, it is possible--in fact necessary--to examine the pre-Marshall Court, and its justices, to gain a true understanding of the origins of American constitutionalism
Complete Review of the Authority on the Subject Ryan Adair Gerber's collection is a complete review on the subject, challenging notions that the Court was inconsequential and irrelevant prior to John Marshall's appointment as Chief Justice of the United States in 1801. The compiled works illustrate effectively the Court's prohibition on advisory opinions and the Constitutional import
"This absorbing collection of essays goes far toward filling a void in the literature on the early justices of the world's most significant tribunal.”-Law and Politics Book Review"This useful collection of biographical essays, bracketed by splendid treatments of John Jay and Oliver Elsworth, goes a long way toward establishing that the first justices of the Supreme Court were an impressive collection of political and constitutional thinkers who did much, before and during their service on the Court, to construct the constitutional order."-Mark Tushnet,Georgetown University Law Center"Professor Gerber's Seriatim is a genuinely welcome work, an imaginative one, and a distinctly needed one. The pre-Marshall period had all-too-long been neglected and when addressed at all, it was usually done in cursory, brief compass. Abraham,James Hart Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, Emeritus, University of Virginia"A wonderful book that challe
He teaches at Ohio Northern University College of Law.. Scott Douglas Gerber, Ph.D., J.D., is author of To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation and editor of Seriatim: The Supreme Court before John Marshall, both available from New York University Press