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Thomas Jefferson and the Rise of the Supreme Court
Author(s) -
NEWMYER R. KENT
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of supreme court history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1540-5818
pISSN - 1059-4329
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5818.2006.00131.x
Subject(s) - george (robot) , supreme court , law , history , argument (complex analysis) , conversation , classics , philosophy , political science , art history , biochemistry , chemistry , linguistics
American constitutional history in the early national period seems at times to be a conversation—or an argument—among Virginians. There's James Madison, George Washington, George Mason, John Taylor of Caroline County, Judge Spencer Roane, John Randolph of Roanoke, to mention only some. At the center of this constellation were John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson.