"This Honorable Court"

Author: Mark Edward Lender
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813538044

In this first historical account of the District of New Jersey, Mark Edward Lender traces its evolution from its origins through the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing on extensive original records, including those in the National Archives, he shows how it was at the district court level that the new nation first tested the role of federal law and authority. From these early decades through today, the cases tried in New Jersey stand as prime examples of the legal and constitutional developments that have shaped the course of federal justice. At critical moments in our history, the courts participated in the Alien and Sedition Acts, the transition from Federalist to Jeffersonian political authority, the balancing of state and federal roles during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and modern controversies over civil rights and affirmative

Representing Justice

Representing Justice
Author: Judith Resnik
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 719
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0300110960

A remnant of the Renaissance : the transnational iconography of justice -- Civic space, the public square, and good governance -- Obedience : the judge as the loyal servant of the state -- Of eyes and ostriches -- Why eyes? : color, blindness, and impartiality -- Representations and abstractions : identity, politics, and rights -- From seventeenth-century town halls to twentieth-century courts -- A building and litigation boom in Twentieth-Century federal courts -- Late Twentieth-Century United States courts : monumentality, security, and eclectic imagery -- Monuments to the present and museums of the past : national courts (and prisons) -- Constructing regional rights -- Multi-jurisdictional premises : from peace to crimes -- From "rites" to "rights" -- Courts : in and out of sight, site, and cite -- An iconography for democratic adjudication.

The Courthouse

The Courthouse
Author: Don Hardenbergh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1998
Genre: Courthouses
ISBN:

Report

Report
Author: National Center for State Courts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1989
Genre: Court administration
ISBN:

Cumulative Book Index

Cumulative Book Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2264
Release: 1995
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

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