First Chief Justice

First Chief Justice

John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation

Dillon, Mark C.

State University of New York Press

09/2022

336

Mole

Inglês

9781438487861

15 a 20 dias

227

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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