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Blackstone in America : selected essays of Kathryn Preyer / Mary Sarah Bilder, Maeva Marcus, R. Kent Newmyer.

By: Bilder, Mary SarahContributor(s): Marcus, Maeva, 1941- | Newmyer, R. KentPublication details: Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. Description: xii, 287 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521490870 (hbk.)Subject(s): Preyer, Kathryn (Kathryn Turner) | Common law -- United States -- History | Judicial review -- United States -- History | Federal government -- United States -- History | Justice, Administration of -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 340.5/70973 LOC classification: KF394. | B49 2009Online resources: Book review (H-Net)
Contents:
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.
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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.