The Supreme Court in United States History

by Charles Warren (1868-1954)

CONTENTS

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Volume One

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Preface	v
Abbreviations of Titles of Books Frequently Cited	xv
Chapter
Introductory Chapter	1
I. The First Courts and the Circuits	31
II. State Sovereignty and Neutrality.	91
III. Chief Justices Rutledge and Ellsworth	124
IV. Marshall, Jefferson and the Judiciary	169
V. The Mandamus Case	231
VI. Impeachment and Treason	269
VII. Judge Johnson and the Embargo	316
VIII. Pennsylvania and Georgia against the Court	366
IX. Judge Story, the War and Federal Supremacy	400
X. The Judges and the Court-rooms	454
XI. Corporate Charters and Bankruptcy	474
XII. The Bank of the United States	499
Volume Two
Abbreviations of Titles of Books Frequently Cited	ix
XIII. Virginia against the Court	1
XIV. International Law	25
XV. The Steamboat Monopoly Case	47
XVI. Kentucky against the Court	93
XVII. Judiciary Reform	112
XVIII. Constitutional Law and Daniel Webster	146

CHAPTER	PAGE
XIX. The Cherokee Cases and President Jackson	189
XX. The Last Years of Chief Justice Marshall	240
XXI. Chief Justice Taney and Whig Pessimism	275
XXII. Corporations and Slavery	313
XXIII. Federal Powers, Tyler and the Girard Will Case	857
XXIV. State Powers, Commerce and Boundaries	408
XXV. Slavery and State Defiance	480
Volume Three
Abbreviations of Titles of Books Frequently Cited	ix
XXVI. The Dred Scott Case	1
XXVII. The Booth Case, and Congressional Attacks	42
XXVIII. Civil War and Chief Justice Chase	80
XXIX. The Milligan Case	140
XXX. Reconstruction	177
XXXI. The Legal Tender Cases	220
XXXII. The Slaughterhouse Cases and the Death of Chase	255
XXXIII. Chief Justice Waite and the Fourteenth Amendment	284
XXXIV. The Civil Rights Acts	322
XXXV. Increase op Nationalism	344
XXXVI. Expansion of Judicial Powers	385
XXXVII. Chief Justices Fuller and White	418
XXXVIII. Commerce and the Police Power	451
Appendix: List of Persons Nominated as Chief Justice and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1921	479
Index	485