John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (Southern Biography Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (583 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807132497 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 511 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Interesting read" according to Lilas. Interesting book and interesting character, good state.. Michael Heath said A great Marshall biogaphy is yet to be written. Maybe I'm getting spoiled with the recent output of historical profiles that have the narrative quality of great fiction, like Caro's LBJ series, Chernow on Hamilton, and McCullough's books on our founding. Given that high bar, Newmyer's history of Marshall is a very difficult read.This book plods along. When discussing a principle the court dealt with Newmyer often makes it impossible to keep track of what year or even decade he's referring to, making it difficult to put the principles discussed into the proper context, especially political context. I also felt the book was very biased, glorifying his c. Chief Justice Marshall's Conservative Nationalism Robin Friedman John Marshall, our nation's fourth Chief Justice, served from 1801 until 1835. He was appointed by President John Adams in one of the last and most significant acts of his administration.Professor Kent Newmyer has written a comprehensive account of the great Chief Justice's career. The account is admirably researched and documented, drawing extensively on a new edition of Marshall's papers. It includes careful analyses of Marshall's leading opinions. Most importantly, Professor Newmyer gives a thoughtful discussion of Justice Marshall's place on the Court and on the importance of his vision of the United
As a judge, Marshall (1755-1835) believed in but did not always practice nonpolitical interpretation of the Constitution. Newmyer profiles a dozen of the justice's foundational opinions for the Supreme Court, demonstrating Marshall's persistent nationalist vision in which a written Constitution trumps divisive state and local interests. At the end of his career, Marshall believed his vision had been swept aside by history; and so it had, as states' rights gained ascendancy in the years leading up to the Civil War. Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835, Newmyer (Supreme Court Justice
His great opinions in cases like Marbury v. It substantiates Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s view of Marshall as the most representative figure in American law.. More than the summation of Marshall's legal and institutional accomplishments, Newmyer's impressive study captures the nuanced texture of the justice's reasoning, the complexity of his mature jurisprudence, and the affinities and tensions between his system of law and the transformative age in which he lived. 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. John Marshall (1755--1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. Maryland are still part of the working discourse of constitutional law in America. Kent Newmyer combines engaging narrative with new historiographical insigh
Kent Newmyer, professor of law and history at the University of Connecticut School of Law, is the author of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story among other books.. R. Kent Newmyer, professor of law and history at the University of Connecticut School of Law, is the author of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story