Origins of the Federal Judiciary: Essays on the Judiciary Act of 1789

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Maeva Marcus
Oxford University Press, 21 may 1992 - 320 páginas
The Judiciary Act of 1789 established a federal court system, an experiment that became one of the outstanding features of American democracy. Yet little has been written about the origins of the Act. This volume of essays analyzes the Act from political and legal perspectives while enhancing our understanding of the history of the judiciary and its role in the constitutional interpretation.
 

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Introduction
3
Political Compromise or Constitutional Interpretation?
13
2 Jurisdiction Stripping and the Judiciary Act of 1789
40
The Lost Dimension of Marshall Court Sovereignty Cases
66
Presumptuous Evidence Too Many Lawyers and a Federal Common Law Crime
106
Judge and Jury in a Republican Society
173
A View From Hayburns Case
196
Section 25 of the 1789 Judiciary Act and Judicial Federalism
223
The Iconography of Judgment and American Culture
248
9 The Judiciary Act of 1789 and Judicial Independence
281
Index
299
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