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Informationen zum Autor Julius Goebel Jr. (1892-1973) was George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History, Columbia University School of Law. He was the author of numerous articles and books, including the classic Felony and Misdemeanor: A Study in the History of English Criminal Procedure (1937) and A History of the School of Law (1955). He co-authored Law Enforcement in Colonial New York: A Study in Criminal Procedure (1664-1776) (1944) and Cases and Other Materials on Domestic Relations (1952) and edited Cases and Materials on the Development of Legal Institutions (1929). Until his death in 1973, he was editing what became the five volumes of The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton (5 vols., 1964-80). Klappentext In this volume! Julius Goebel Jr. details the creation of a national judiciary in the United States and traces the Supreme Court's development through its first decade of existence. Zusammenfassung Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801 is the first of twelve volumes in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. In this first volume! Julius Goebel Jr. details the creation of a national judiciary in the United States under the Act of 1789 and traces the Supreme Court's development through its first decade of existence. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The path of the law - old world to new; 2. The traditions of judicial control over legislation; 3. The new states and the principle of constitutional authority; 4. The continental congress and national judicial authority; 5. The constitutional convention and the judiciary; 6. The appeal to the people and the molding of opinion; 7. The framers as propagandists; 8. The raising I: the judicial before the states; 9. The raising II: the judicial before the states; 10. Unfinished business - the Bill of Rights; 11. The Judiciary Act of 1789; 12. The process acts; 13. The circuit courts - organization, civil and appellate jurisdiction; 14. The circuit courts - criminal jurisdiction; 15. The Supreme Court - appellate practice; 16. The Supreme Court - political and constitutional issues I; 17. The Supreme Court - political and constitutional issues II; Appendix: the business of the Supreme Court, 1789-1801, appellate jurisdiction; Manuscript sources - abbreviations of locations; Location of manuscript federal judicial records consulted; Manuscripts other than federal judicial records; Contemporary newspapers and periodicals cited; Short titles and abbreviations; Select bibliography....
