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"--
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Gepubliceerd in: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2022]
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| Reeks: | SUNY series in American constitutionalism.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252328 |
Inhoudsopgave:
- 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 mission while Chief Justice
- After the Supreme Court
- History's verdict.