The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800

The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800
Author: Maeva Marcus
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 856
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231088718

Volume 4 assembles a selection of documents illustrating the statuory development of the federal judiciary from 1789-1800. Beginning with a narrative essay on the background of Article III of the Constitution, the volume tracks, from the First through the Sixth Congresses, all the major and minor legislation relevant to the establishment of the American judicial system. As the decade unfolded, experience revealed problems with the system as it was initially structured, and efforts were made to change it. Dissatisfaction with circuit riding, with the method of juror selection, and with judges undertaking duties not strictly judicial, for example, led to various legislative attempts at reform.

The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: The justices on circuit, 1790-1794

The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: The justices on circuit, 1790-1794
Author: Maeva Marcus
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 652
Release: 1985
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231088695

Volume 2 details the workings of the Court's experimental practice of sending Justices around the country to serve as judges at sessions of the various federal circuit courts. The documents in this volume reveal that the justices quickly voiced bitter complaints about the demands of their circuit duties. They also questioned the propriety--and perhaps constitutionality--of assigning the same individuals to act as superior and inferior court judges. The documents in this volume also touch upon topics that figured prominently in the law and politics of the era: neutrality, the boundary between state and federal crimes, the constitutional prohibition against impairing the obligations of contracts, and the relationship between law and morality.

Genealogy of the Tucker Family

Genealogy of the Tucker Family
Author: Ephraim Tucker
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780331591040

Excerpt from Genealogy of the Tucker Family: From Various Authentic Sources Much valuable information has been furnished by the model history of Milton, by Rev. Albert K. Teele, published in 1887, wherein he has placed the annals of the town in a condition to be handed down to future generations, and has delineated the virtues of the inhabitants with singular fidelity. The descendants of Robert Tucker have resided in Milton continuously from the organization of the town to the present time, and some of them still reside upon a part of the land once owned by him. The following extract is from the History of Milton, commemorative of Robert Tucker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.