SUPREME COURT UNDER MARSHALL AND TANEY (AMERICAN HISTORY SERIES) - Softcover

Newmyer, R. Kent

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9780882957463: SUPREME COURT UNDER MARSHALL AND TANEY (AMERICAN HISTORY SERIES)

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ISBN 10: 0882957465 ISBN 13: 9780882957463

Publisher: Harlan Davidson, 1968

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Studies the Court between 1801 and 1864, showing how it came to be "the most authoritative interpreter of the Constitution." The author discusses the landmark cases, from Marbury v. Madison to Dred Scott. Includes a glossary, a list of the Supreme Court justices between 1801 and 1864, and an index of cases.

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About the Author:

R. Kent Newmyer is Distinguished Alumni Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Connecticut, and Professor of Law and History at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he teaches courses in American constitutional and legal history. His teaching and research specialty is the legal and political history of the early republic. His judicial biography, Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic (1985), received the Littleton-Griswold Award from the American Historical Association for the best book on law and society for 1985; a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association; and the Benchmark Book Award for 1985-86 in recognition of its contribution to legal history and the role of the judiciary. His most recent work, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (2001), received the Jules and Frances Landry Award from LSU Press and was the winner of the Fifth Annual Library of Virginia Award for the best nonfiction book for 2002.

"The Supreme Court under Chief Justices, Marshall and Taney, from 1801 to 1864, spanned the formative years of the republic. During this period the American people cast off the institutional and psychological vestiges of colonial status and established the political and economic foundations, the intellectual assumptions, and the social priorities that would carry the nation into the modern age. In this enterprise of nation building the Court played a leading role. Not only did it shape the contours of national policy, but, in the process, defined its own powers and established the ground rules for judicial government."

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