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Interpreting the Bill of Rights and the Nature of Federalism: Barron v. City of Baltimore
Author(s) -
DOHERTY BRENDAN J.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of supreme court history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1540-5818
pISSN - 1059-4329
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5818.2007.00165.x
Subject(s) - constitution , supreme court , federalism , law , political science , government (linguistics) , economic justice , bill of rights , constitutional law , sociology , politics , philosophy , linguistics
In 1833, a mere forty‐five years after the Constitution of the United States took effect, the young republic was striving to establish the form its constitutional government would take. For while the Constitution and its first ten amendments had set forth many principles regarding the rights of individual citizens with respect to the actions of their government, the precise nature of these relations would be determined in large part by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall.