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The First Chief Justice
Finalist for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the
Year Award in the History Category The first Chief Justice
of the United States, John Jay faced many unique challenges. When
the stability and success of the new nation were far from certain,
a body of federalized American law had to be created from scratch.
In The First Chief Justice , New York State Appellate Judge
Mark C. Dillon uncovers, for the first time, how Jay's personal,
educational, and professional experiences-before, during, and after
the Revolutionary War-shaped both the establishment of the first
system of federal courts from 1789 to 1795 and Jay's approach to
deciding the earliest cases heard by the Supreme Court. Dillon
takes us on a fascinating journey of a task accomplished by
constant travel on horseback to the nation's far reaches, with Jay
adeptly handling the Washington administration, Congress, lawyers,
politicians, and judicial colleagues. The book includes the history
of each of the nine cases decided by Jay when he was Chief Justice,
many of which have proven with time to have enduring historical
significance. The First Chief Justice will appeal to
anyone interested in the establishment of the US federal court
system and early American history.
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Publius and political imagination
Jason Frank’s Publius and Political Imagination is the first volume of the Modernity and Political Thought series to take as its focus not a single author, but collaboration between political thinkers, in this very special case the collective known by the pseudonym: Publius. Frank's revisionist reading of The Federalist Papers—perhaps the most canonical text in American political thought—counters familiar realist and deliberativist interpretations and demonstrates the neglected importance of political imagination to both Publius's arguments and to the republic he was invented to found.
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The Supreme Court in the Early Republic
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.
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From the Works of Nature . . . to the Institutions of Man
The ratification debate of 1787–1788 unfolded in distinct stages and the stage which began early in January 1788 was the most important. It saw the introduction of political moderation which blended both stylistic and substantive elements to enable compromise across a vast gulf of differences between Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Ultimately, moderation was the mechanism and the approach that enabled the Federalists to win the ratification contest. James Madison and John Jay—who were themselves defining examples of political moderation—helped lead this crucial turn, first through written words and later through their actions. But just as important as the turn toward political moderation was the timing of that pivot. In other words, when Madison and Jay took these actions in the context of the debate mattered greatly. This article examines the practice of moderation within the immediate context of the ratification process so that we can better understand the key interventions made by Madison and Jay and discover why the timing of their political moderation was so crucial.
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Interstate Arbitration: “… Settling Disputes Which Diplomacy Has Failed to Settle ”
The subject of interstate arbitration has been largely neglected in the field of international relations, often dismissed as merely an obscure legal process. Drawing on numerous cases, this article argues that interstate arbitration has been a significant strategic factor in settling important international disputes and that its merit as a dispute resolution method should be evaluated not only on the basis of arbitrators’ decisions alone but also on its impact on the underlying diplomatic process between disputants. The author examines the nature of interstate arbitration, traces its historical development, outlines its contemporary processes, and proposes a framework explaining how and when it may be applied to international conflicts between states.
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A Small Note / Listen to This
Listen to This My father learned to play flamenco from Carlos Montoya crossing the Atlantic in a cargo ship, but never wrote one song himself-never wrote an essay to memorialize the way the old dark-eyed maestro dragged and scraped the strings to screaming. From Batman and Joker impromptus I'd cliffhang off my bunkbed's edge, to debate-team practice, fixing the world in three to seven minutes, to frantic midnight phone calls pacing bridge to bridge to bridge beneath the FDR's hard shelter, talking to convince myself, through them, to leave, or take, some job, to leave or find a love, to see or not to see a shrink. If you can read this now-just read it, love what's here of me to love, discard what won't ever be good enough, feel nothing more complex than joy, then you make my words matter.
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John Jay College of Criminal Justice: Records of the Enslaved and Slave Holders in New York
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a senior college of the City University of New York in New York, NY via a searchable online database project supported by its Master of Public Administration Programs house the New York Slavery Records Index with consists of records of enslaved persons and slave holders in New York from 1525 though the Civil War which come from census records, slave trade transactions, cemetery records, birth certifications, manumissions, ship inventories, newspaper accounts, private narratives, legal documents and many other sources. [...]the goal is to deepen the understanding of enslavement/slavery in New York by bringing together information that until now has been largely disconnected and difficult to access.
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