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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.

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John Marshall is the Agamemnon of Supreme Court history. But there were great Justices before Marshall. One of those great Justices was James Iredell. By the time the Constitution was framed in 1787, Iredell was a proto-Federalist who believed in the need for a strong national government to deal with national issues. His public advocacy earned him a national reputation, and in 1789, Pres George Washington rewarded him with an appointment to the Supreme Court. From the postulate of the people's sovereignty, Iredell drew the corollary that the will of the people as expressed in a constitution is superior to any legislative enactment. Although Iredell saw the judiciary as a protector of individuals' rights under a written constitution, he was well aware of the possibility that the judges might abuse their power. Today, some two hundred years later, Iredell's thoughtful analysis has lost some of its original value. Today, the judiciary occasionally reviews the constitutionality of executive action.

The new volume, \"The Justices on Circuit: 1795-1800,\" (Columbia, $75), covers one of the least known but most important duties of the early Court's six Justices. They were required to \"ride circuit,\" serving as trial judges on the Federal Circuit Courts that Congress created to address major Federal crimes as well as civil cases that involved the Federal Government or citizens from more than one state. \"Their circuit riding threw the Justices into the political life of the nation,\" Maeva Marcus, the project's director and the editor of the series, said in a recent interview. \"They were the ambassadors to the people, an important educational function. They had to find answers to the most basic questions. What are the sources of law in a country created by a revolution? How do you make a jurisprudence out of nothing?\" Most of his letters began with an account of his own health and an anxious inquiry about hers and the children's. \"I was relieved from great anxiety on Tuesday by receiving your letters of the 15th and 22 April,\" he wrote from Baltimore on May 4, 1797. \"Thank God that you were all then so well.\" Mrs. [James Iredell] had apparently asked him to buy some household goods in Baltimore, and this letter includes a list of the items he had found: sugar, cheese, garden seeds, silk and muslin.

Waldrup reviews The Papers of James Iredell. Volume III: 1784-1789 edited by Donna Kelly and Lang Baradell.

The Sea King: The Life of James Iredell Waddell by Gary McKay.

[...] yet, three years later, when Wilson's shaky finances began to come clashing down around him, launching an ignominious decline that landed him-while still a sitting Supreme Court justice-in debtor's prison, Hannah confounded those scornful Boston gossips.