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"Stretching westward from the Tidewater to the Ohio River and from the far reaches of the Chesapeake Bay southward to the Savannah River, the United States courts in the modern Fourth Circuit trace their origins to the founding of the Republic. Peter Graham Fish in this monumental study traces and evaluates in three periodized parts the development of national courts and law in Maryland, the 'Ancient Commonwealth' of Virginia, North and South Carolina. Each part is keyed to the politics-infused creation of and subsequent changes in the organization of the federal court districts and regional circuits. Using a variety of sources, the author considers the politics of judicial selection, court administration and procedures, the influence of circuit-riding Justices of the Supreme Court and the development of judicial power respecting acts of Congress and the President as well as of the several states. Also probed is the part played by the early federal courts in America's neutrality-based foreign policy and in promoting economic enterprise by affording national forums for credit transactions, for corporations, for patent claimants, for those who suffered losses on the sea including mar

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Author

Fish, Peter Graham.

Publisher

Administrative Office of the United States Courts, [2002?]

Published

2002

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction