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\"One could almost use the word momentous, or the word epoch-making though epoch-ending might be more to the point ... I don't see how anyone henceforth can repeat the old cliches which Beard put into circulation forty years ago.\"—Frederick B. Tolles, Swarthmore College. \"American historians, particularly those who have given lectures or written books based on the Beard thesis, ignore Brown's book at their peril.\"—American Historical Review. Originally published in 1956. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

William R. Casto sheds a new light on America’s federal judiciary and the changing legal landscape with his detailed examination of the Supreme Court’s formative years. In a study that spans the period from the Court’s tentative beginnings through the appointment of its third chief justice, Casto reveals a judicial body quite different in orientation and philosophy from the current Supreme Court and one with a legacy of enduring significance for the U.S. legal system.rimes, the drafting of the Judiciary Act of 1789, and the adoption of judicial review.

This chapter addresses how Alexander McDougall capitalized on the DeLanceys' inaction to mobilize support not only in New York but across the Eastern Seaboard. From mid-1774, New Yorkers' associations and loyalties were tested. Radical Whigs like McDougall and John Holt often sided with those who described themselves as patriots. Those who were establishment or moderate Whigs were forced to determine if they would move toward radicalism or go in the other direction. Meanwhile, a majority of the DeLanceys became loyalists. The chapter then looks at the First Continental Congress. New Yorkers' contrasting actions toward two different congressional delegations offer an insight into Manhattan's political climate. Both the DeLanceyites and McDougallites were attempting to influence, even control, the city's public spaces.

This chapter traces the history of debate in the colonies during the mid eighteenth century and leading up to the First Continental Congress around the issue of rights. It demonstrates how a new concept, ‘rights of man’ came to have currency in the colonies at this time. This concept helped the colonists explain and understand how they could propose and eventuate a separation from the mother country.

In this episode, David Rubenstein explores the role of First Ladies in the White House with historian Annette Gordon-Reed and journalists Jonathan Alter and the late Cokie Roberts.

This chapter describes George Washington's strong support for the unitary executive, which sprouted from events that occurred long before he became the first president of the United States. In particular, Washington's views on the subject were greatly shaped by his experiences during the Revolutionary War, when several committees of the Continental Congress served as the army's plural executive head. These ineffective multiple committees led Washington to plead throughout the war for the creation of a single executive structure that would have the power and the duty to “act with dispatch and energy,” and to complain repeatedly about “the inconvenience of depending upon a number of men and different channels” for supplies, and how allowing the executive power to be held “in commission in several hands” led to “Delay,” “Waste,” and “unpunishable Neglect of Duty.”

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