CONTENTS


Volume One

PAGE
Prefacev
Abbreviations of Titles of Books Frequently Citedxv
Chapter
Introductory Chapter1
I. The First Courts and the Circuits31
II. State Sovereignty and Neutrality.91
III. Chief Justices Rutledge and Ellsworth124
IV. Marshall, Jefferson and the Judiciary169
V. The Mandamus Case231
VI. Impeachment and Treason269
VII. Judge Johnson and the Embargo316
VIII. Pennsylvania and Georgia against the Court366
IX. Judge Story, the War and Federal Supremacy400
X. The Judges and the Court-rooms454
XI. Corporate Charters and Bankruptcy474
XII. The Bank of the United States499

Volume Two

Abbreviations of Titles of Books Frequently Citedix
XIII. Virginia against the Court1
XIV. International Law25
XV. The Steamboat Monopoly Case47
XVI. Kentucky against the Court93
XVII. Judiciary Reform112
XVIII. Constitutional Law and Daniel Webster146
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XIX. The Cherokee Cases and President Jackson189
XX. The Last Years of Chief Justice Marshall240
XXI. Chief Justice Taney and Whig Pessimism275
XXII. Corporations and Slavery313
XXIII. Federal Powers, Tyler and the Girard Will Case857
XXIV. State Powers, Commerce and Boundaries408
XXV. Slavery and State Defiance480

Volume Three

Abbreviations of Titles of Books Frequently Citedix
XXVI. The Dred Scott Case1
XXVII. The Booth Case, and Congressional Attacks42
XXVIII. Civil War and Chief Justice Chase80
XXIX. The Milligan Case140
XXX. Reconstruction177
XXXI. The Legal Tender Cases220
XXXII. The Slaughterhouse Cases and the Death of Chase255
XXXIII. Chief Justice Waite and the Fourteenth Amendment284
XXXIV. The Civil Rights Acts322
XXXV. Increase op Nationalism344
XXXVI. Expansion of Judicial Powers385
XXXVII. Chief Justices Fuller and White418
XXXVIII. Commerce and the Police Power451
Appendix: List of Persons Nominated as Chief Justice and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1921479
Index485

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