"To save the people from themselves" : the emergence of American judicial review and the transformation of constitutions /
In this expansive history, Robert J. Steinfeld offers a thorough re-interpretation of the origins of American judicial review and the central role it quickly came to play in the American constitutional system. Beginning with Privy Council review of American colonial legislation, the book goes on to...
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2021.
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| Series: | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The largely "legislative" character of the ("horizontal" "vertical") constitutional checks placed on Colonial legislatures
- The traditional nature of the first written constitutions and the role of legislatures as their primary expounders
- Restoring "legislative" review of the laws : the New York Constitution of 1777
- Supplementing traditional legislative "Revision" with judicial review : the New Jersey Case of Holmes V. Walton, 1779-1780
- The debate over judicial review in the Virginia Court of Appeals : the Case of the Prisoners, 1782
- The reappearance of "vertical" judicial review in the Case of Rutgers v. Waddington, New York, 1784
- The successful battle to establish judicial review in New Hampshire : the Ten Pound Act Cases, 1786-87, and their Aftermath
- Judicial review and legislative supremacy in Rhode Island : the Case of Trevett v. Weeden, 1786, and its aftermath
- The struggle between traditional onstitutionalism and the Constitution of Judicial Review in North Carolina : the Case of Bayard v. Singleton, 1786-87, and its aftermath
- Judicial review and the fate of traditional constitutionalism at the federal convention.
