The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic
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The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic
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The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic

The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic

by Richard E Ellis
The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic

The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic

by Richard E Ellis

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ISBN-13: 9780195013900
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 04/28/1971
Pages: 390
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

I.An Unsettled Problem: The Judiciary and the American Revolution, 1776-18013
Part 1Politics and the Judiciary Under Jefferson17
II.The Jeffersonians in Power19
III.The Repeal of the Judiciary Act of 180136
IV.Judicial Review53
V.Impeachments69
VI.Republican Divisions83
VII.Chase's Acquittal96
Part 2The Struggle Over Judicial Reform in the States109
VIII.Post-Revolutionary Attitudes Toward the Legal Profession111
IX.Radicals vs. Moderates in Kentucky, 1791-1796123
X.Judicial Reform in Kentucky, 1796-1802139
XI.Courts and Politics in Pennsylvania, 1799-1805157
XII.Constitutional and Judicial Reform in Pennsylvania, 1805-1808171
XIII.The Debate over Judicial Reform in Massachusetts, 1799-1806184
XIV.The Politics of Judicial Reform in Massachusetts, 1803-1808207
Part 3Toward a Redefinition of Jeffersonian Democracy231
XV.The Jeffersonians and the Judiciary233
XVI.Law and Society in Jeffersonian America250
XVII.The Meaning of the Jeffersonian Ascendancy267
Notes285
Bibliography345
Index371
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