A Chronicle of the Supreme Court
Volume 16 of the
Chronicles of America Series
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Allen Johnson, Editor
Assistant Editors
Gerhard R. Lomer
Charles W. Jefferys
Abraham Lincoln Edition
New Haven: Yale University Press
Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.
London: Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
1920
ii Copyright, 1919
by Yale University Press
| Chapter | Chapter Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| I. | The Establishment Of The National Judiciary | 1 |
| II. | Marshall’s Early Years | 25 |
| III. | Jefferson’s War On The Judiciary | 53 |
| IV. | The Trial Of Aaron Burr | 86 |
| V. | The Tenets Of Nationalism | 121 |
| VI. | The Sanctity Of Contracts | 147 |
| VII. | The Menace Of State Rights | 173 |
| VIII. | Among Friends And Neighbors | 198 |
| IX. | Epilogue | 224 |
| Bibliographical Note | 233 | |
| Index | 237 |
The Establishment Of The National Judiciary
The monarch of ancient times mingled the functions of priest and judge. It is therefore not altogether surprising that even today a judicial system should be stamped with a certain resemblance to an ecclesiastical hierarchy. If the Church of the Middle Ages was “an army encamped on the soil of Christendom, with its outposts everywhere, subject to the