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The first Chief Justice : John Jay and the struggle of a new nation / Mark C. Dillon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dillon, Mark C., author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in American constitutionalism.
- Suny Series in American Constitutionalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
- New York (State)--Politics and government--To 1775.
- New York (State).
- United States. Supreme Court--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States. Supreme Court--History.
- United States. Supreme Court--Cases--History.
- Jay, John, 1745-1829.
- Jay, John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Chronicles the efforts of the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court to establish a federal court system during the country's uncertain early years.
- Contents:
- Formative days in colonial New York
- Passing the rubicon : a key man in the birth of a nation
- Appointment as the Nation's first Chief Justice
- The Supreme Court's first argued case : West v. Barnes (1791)
- Grappling with the separation of powers : in re Hayburn (1792), plus ex parte Chandler and United States v Todd (unreported, 1794)
- Sovereign immunity and an impetus for the 11th Amendment : Chisholm v Georgia (1793)
- Resisting political pressure from the executive branch : Pagan v Hooper (1793)
- The Supreme Court's only reported jury trial and the supremacy of special jurors : the three appeals of Georgia v Brailsford (1792, 1793, and 1794)
- Trouble on the high seas : Glass v Sloop Betsey (1794)
- Efforts to criminally prosecute Chief Justice Jay : the citizen Genet affair
- Jay Court decisions of lesser note : Kingsley v Jenkins (1793), ex parte Martin (1793), and U.S. v Hopkins (1794)
- A final missionwhile Chief Justice
- After the Supreme Court
- History's verdict.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438487878
- 1438487878
- OCLC:
- 1290244373
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