John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme CourtJohn 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 from 1801 to1835, 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 are still part of the working 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 interpretati. |
Contents
Young Man of the Revolution | 1 |
Judicial Statesman in the Making Law and Politics in the 1790s | 69 |
Marshall Jefferson and the Rise of the Supreme Court | 146 |
Republican Judge as Lockean Liberal | 210 |
Constitutional Law for a New Nation | 267 |
Embattled Chief | 322 |
Conservative Nationalist in the Age of Jackson | 386 |
A Judge for All Seasons | 459 |
Essay on the Sources | 487 |
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