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Bilder, Mary Sarah.

Blackstone in America : selected essays of Kathryn Preyer / Mary Sarah Bilder, Maeva Marcus, R. Kent Newmyer. - Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Federalist policy and the Judiciary Act of 1801 -- The appointment of Chief Justice Marshall -- The midnight judges -- U.S. v. Callender : judge and jury in a Republican society -- Penal measures in the American colonies : an overview -- Crime, the criminal law, and reform in post-revolutionary Virginia -- Jurisdiction to punish : federal authority, federalism, and the common law of crimes in the early Republic -- Cesare Beccaria and the founding fathers -- Two enlightened criminal law reformers : Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and Peter Leopold.

ISBN: 9780521490870 (hbk.)

LCCN: 2008055957

Subjects--Personal Names:
Preyer, Kathryn

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Common law--History.--United States
Judicial review--History.--United States
Federal government--History.--United States
Justice, Administration of--History.--United States

LC Class. No.: KF394. / B49 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 340.5/70973