John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
by R. Kent Newmyer
Southern Biography Series (2001)
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"John Marshall (1755-1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving during the formative years of the Republic from 1801 to 1835, he helped move the Court from the fringes of power to the epicenter of constitutional government. His great opinions in cases like Marbury v. Madison and McCulloch v. Maryland, cited by the Court thousands of times over the years, are still part of the working show more discourse of constitutional law in America. Drawing on a new and definitive edition of Marshall's papers, R. Kent Newmyer combines engaging narrative with new historiographical insights in a fresh interpretation of John Marshall's life in the law. Newmyer unfolds Marshall's early Virginia years - his Americanization in Fauquier County before the Revolution, his decision to fight for independence as "a principled soldier," and his emergence as a constitutional nationalist in the 1780s. Marshall's experience as a Federalist politician and a leading Virginia lawyer during the turbulent partisan decade of the 1790s, Newmyer argues, defined his ideas about judicial review and the role of the Supreme Court as a curb on party-based, states' rights radicalism."--Jacket. show lessTags
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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
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- Canonical title
- John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- John Adams; Alexander Hamilton; Patrick Henry; Andrew Jackson; Thomas Jefferson; William Johnson (show all 12); James Madison; John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States; Bushrod Washington; George Washington; Daniel Webster; George Wythe
- Epigraph
- An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson - Publisher's editor
- Jean C. Lee
- Blurbers
- Hall, Kermit L.; White, G. Edward; Freyer, Tony A.; Johnson, Herbert A.
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- Genres
- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 347.73 — Society, government, & culture Law U.S. Supreme Court - Judicial Decisions North America Civil procedure and courts of the United States
- LCC
- KF8745 .M3 .N49 — Law Law of the United States Law of the United States (Federal) Courts. Procedure Court organization and procedure
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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