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The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: Volume 8 (Documentary History of the...
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by Maeva Marcus
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 648 pages
Published by: Columbia University Press February 9, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0231139764
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0231139762
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.2 x 2 inches
Weighs: 2.2 pounds
Product Review
"A treasure trove for students of the early republic, particularly those interested in legal history." -- The American Journal of Legal History
"Striking and remarkable for its quantity and quality of sources and its annotations.Striking and remarkable for its quantity and quality of sources and its annotations. Clearly the source for all interested in the early foundations of the American republic and the American judicial system." -- Choice
Product Description
The eight volumes of The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789 1800 gather together documents from the National Archives and dozens of additional repositories, resulting in a rich portrait of the first decade of the Court. It is an invaluable series for any scholar interested in the development of the Supreme Court as an institution and in the cases that came before the Court during its infancy.
The final volume of The Documentary History concerns cases heard between 1798 and 1800. In these years, the United States was virtually at war with France, and issues arising from that conflict came before the Court. For example, in Baas v. Tingey, the Court ruled that although Congress had not declared war, France should still be considered an "enemy." But the Court's docket also featured cases that arose naturally in the burgeoning nation. Several involved disputes over land-most notably a controversy centering on a substantial strip of territory running along the southern border of New York. The Court heard cases concerning bills of exchange, bankruptcy, and violations of trade laws and resolved a number of procedural issues. In Bingham v. Cabot II, the justices ruled that the citizenship of the parties had to be explicitly stated in the pleadings for the federal courts to assume jurisdiction on the basis of diversity.
During this period, The Supreme Court continued to exercise the authority of judicial review, though it did not strike down a statute. In both Calder v. Bull and Cooper v. Telfair, however, it did examine the constitutionality of state laws. Documents of particular interest in this volume are the notes of Justice William Paterson and William Tilghman, a member of the Supreme Court bar, but all of the cases are accompanied by engaging narratives that guide the reader through the facts and the intricacies of the judicial process.
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