The first Chief Justice : John Jay and the struggle of a new nation /

"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"--

書目詳細資料
主要作者: Dillon, Mark C. (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022]
叢編:SUNY series in American constitutionalism.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252328
書本目錄:
  • 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.