Justice William Johnson, the first dissenter : the career and constitutional philosophy of a Jeffersonian judge /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Donald G. (Donald Grant), 1911-1985
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 1954.
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Table of Contents:
  • A colonist dissents
  • A Republican aspires
  • Jefferson recruits a judge
  • Courts and court power
  • Citizen and planter : 1809-1819
  • The heresy of implied powers
  • "The melancholy effect of popular excitment"
  • Report to Monticello
  • The origin of dissent
  • National powers and the "humblest individual"
  • Vested rights and social interests
  • The Republic and its families
  • "The holy temple of our union"
  • "A might experiment."