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The Supreme Court in the early republic : the chief justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth
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- Summary
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An insightful look at the first Supreme Court and the controversies that surrounded the judicial body.
Details
- Creator
- by William R. Casto
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- JSTOR ebooks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 9781611171693, 1611171695, 1611171474, 9781611171471, 1283735237, 9781283735230, 1611171474, 9781611171471, 1611171474
- OCLC
- ocn823306185
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Creating the Court -- Federal Courts' Subject-Matter Jurisdiction -- Judicial Appointments -- Good Behavior and Compensation -- Judicial Review -- Nonjudicial Duties -- Looking to the Future -- 2. Judiciary Act of 1789 -- Drafting the Judiciary Act -- Opposition to the Federal Courts -- Seeds of a Compromiss -- Limiting the Supreme Court's Jurisdiction -- Federal Trial Courts: Admiralty Jurisdiction -- Shaping the Compromise on Federal Trial Courts -- Congress Accepts Ellsworth's Compromise -- Congressional Instrumentalism -- 3. Selecting the Justices and Initial Operations -- First Nominees -- Assessing Washington's Nomination Criteria -- 4. National Security Court -- Nootka Sound Crisis -- Relations with France and Great Britain -- Neutrality Proclamation -- Treaty of Alliance and the Correspondence of the Justices -- Admiralty Jurisdiction I^