Dillon The First Chief Justice

John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8787-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in American Constitutionalism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dillon, Mark C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface

1. Formative Days in Colonial New York

2. Passing the Rubicon: A Key Man in the Birth of a Nation

3. Appointment as the Nation's First Chief Justice

4. The Supreme Court's First Argued Case: West v. Barnes (1791)

5. Grappling with the Separation of Powers: In Re Hayburn (1792), plus Ex Parte Chandler and United States v Todd (unreported, 1794)

6. Sovereign Immunity and an Impetus for the 11th Amendment: Chisholm v Georgia (1793)

7. Resisting Political Pressure from the Executive Branch: Pagan v Hooper (1793)

8. 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)

9. Trouble on the High Seas: Glass v Sloop Betsey (1794)

10. Efforts to Criminally Prosecute Chief Justice Jay: The Citizen Genet Affair

11. Jay Court Decisions of Lesser Note: Kingsley v Jenkins (1793), Ex Parte Martin (1793), and U.S. v Hopkins (1794)

12. A Final Mission While Chief Justice

13. After the Supreme Court

14. History's Verdict

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Mark C. Dillon is Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court (Second Judicial Department).