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Author

Newmyer, R. Kent.

Title John Marshall and the heroic age of the Supreme Court / R. Kent Newmyer.

Imprint

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2001.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	347.732634 M356Bn 2001	---	Available

Description	xviii, 511 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series	Southern biography series
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Young man of the revolution -- Judicial statesman in the making : law and politics in the 1790s -- Marshall, Jefferson, and the rise of the Supreme Court -- Republican judge as Lockean liberal -- Constitutional law for a new nation -- Embattled chief -- Conservative nationalist in the age of Jackson.
Subject	Marshall, John, 1755-1835.
	Judges -- United States -- Biography.
	United States. Supreme Court -- Biography.
ISBN	0807127019 (cloth : alk. paper)