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The role of circuit courts in the formation of United States law in the early Republic : following Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, Story, and Thompson / David Lynch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynch, David (Judge), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court--Officials and employees--History.
- United States.
- Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829.
- Washington, Bushrod.
- Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823.
- Livingston, Brockholst.
- Story, Joseph, 1779-1845.
- Story, Joseph.
- Thompson, Smith, 1768-1843.
- Thompson, Smith.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Circuit courts--United States--History.
- Circuit courts.
- Law--United States--History.
- Law.
- History.
- United States--History--1783-1865.
- Employees.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 233 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2018.
- Contents:
- The Supreme Court Justices and the circuit experiment
- A team effort
- Why Washington, Livingston, Story, and Thompson?
- The federal circuit courts : shaping local and national justice for an emerging Republic
- The politics of federal law
- The grand jury charge : a bond between government and citizen
- The circuit court discourse in the constitutional ratification and Senate
- Debates
- The jurisdiction of the federal circuit courts
- A certain uniformity of decisions in united states law?
- Bushrod Washington : the role of precedent and the preservation of vested interests
- A federalist's journey from revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court
- Justice Washington and the role of precedent in the federal legal system
- Property rights and commercial law on circuit
- States' rights, the War of 1812, and slavery
- Henry Brockholst Livingston : consolidating mercantile law
- The early years : political allegiances : from Federalist to Republican
- Commercial law for New York State
- A Republican on a Federalist Supreme Court
- Maritime and commercial law for the United States
- Joseph Story : admiralty expertise and the importation of common law
- A modernising influence on law and procedure on the First Circuit
- Admiralty and the enforcement of embargo laws
- Consistency through the sharing of expertise
- The supremacy of federal law
- The protection of minority groups
- Importing common law into the federal legal system
- Smith Thompson : promoting commerce, state sovereignty, and the protection of the Cherokee Nation
- State Supreme Court : statutory interpretation and New York "hard law"
- Contractual obligations on the Second circuit and on the court
- What is to be left to the states?
- The Cherokee nation and the African-American slave.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lynch, David (Judge), author. Role of circuit courts in the formation of United States law in the early Republic
- ISBN:
- 9781509910854
- 1509910859
- OCLC:
- 1004761977
- Publisher Number:
- 99975779969
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