To Bring Law Home

ISBN-13: 9780875804149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 194 str.

D. Kurt Graham

Opis

This title highlights role of district and circuit courts in establishing and maintaining national supremacy. In this original study, Kurt Graham sheds light on both an understudied institution and an underappreciated period in our nation's judicial history with an examination of the federal judiciary - the district and circuit courts - during the early national period. Using Rhode Island as a case study, Graham argues that the federal judicial system exerted a significant nationalizing influence on the citizens and states of the new American nation. Graham illustrates how the federal judiciary brought a federal presence and national authority to bear in Rhode Island, a state that had resisted federal union longer than any other. Legal historians and scholars of the early republic will appreciate this insightful book that opens a window into an often overlooked aspect of U.S. history.