Robert J. Steinfeld (Buffalo State University of New York)

'To Save the People from Themselves'

The Emergence of American Judicial Review and the Transformation of Constitutions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this expansive history, Steinfeld develops a thorough, systematic account describing how American judicial review was brought into being during the 1780s. This book will be an indispensable resource to those interested in constitutional history, as well as to legal scholars more generally.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9781108984591
• ISBN-10: 1108984592
• Artikelnr.: 69074400

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Steinfeld is Professor of Law Emeritus at the SUNY Buffalo School of Law. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, and at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I. Legislatures and Legislation under the First American
Constitutions: 1. The largely 'legislative' character of the ('Horizontal'
and 'Vertical') constitutional checks placed on colonial legislatures; 2.
The traditional nature of the first written constitutions and the role of
legislatures as their primary expounders; 3. Restoring 'legislative' review
of the laws: the New York Constitution of 1777; Part II. The Emergence Of
American Judicial Review: 1779-1787: I. 1779-1782; 4. Supplementing
traditional legislative 'revision' with judicial review: the New Jersey
case of Holmes V. Walton, 1779-1780; 5. The debate over judicial review in
the Virginia court of appeals: the case of the prisoners, 1782; II.
1784-1787: 6. The reappearance of 'vertical' judicial review in the case of
Rutgers v. Waddington, New York, 1784; 7. The successful battle to
establish judicial review in New Hampshire: the ten pound act cases,
1786-87, and their aftermath; 8. Judicial review and legislative supremacy
in Rhode Island: the case of Trevett v. Weeden, 1786, and its aftermath; 9.
The struggle between traditional constitutionalism and the constitution of
judicial review in North Carolina: the case of Bayard v. Singleton,
1786-87, and its aftermath; Part III. Judicial Review at the Federal
Convention: 10. Judicial review and the fate of traditional
constitutionalism at the federal convention.