A distinct judicial power : the origins of an independent judiciary, 1606-1787 / Scott Douglas Gerber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerber, Scott Douglas, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judicial independence--United States--History.

Judicial independence.

Judges--United States.

Judges.

History.

United States.

Judicial power--United States.

Judicial power.

Physical Description:

xxii, 413 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]

Contents:

The history of ideas : from Aristotle's theory of a mixed constitution to John Adams's modifications of Montesquieu

Article III of the Constitution of the United States

Virginia : constitutionalizing judicial independence prior to the U.S. Constitution

Massachusetts : a "safety-valve" theory of judicial independence

New Hampshire : judicial review in the Rockingham County inferior court

Maryland : Chancellor Theodorick Bland and salaries that "ought to be secured"

Connecticut : disestablishment and judicial independence

Rhode Island : last bastion of legislative supremacy

North Carolina : Governor Thomas Burke and the origins of judicial review

South Carolina : judicial review without an independent judiciary

New Jersey : the first state court precedent for judicial review

New York : persistent threats to judicial independence

Pennsylvania : (almost) adopting the federal model

Delaware : a high court of errors and appeals

Georgia : ineffective and dependent judges.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-396) and index.

ISBN:

9780199765874

0199765871

OCLC:

651012011