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The Question of Diminution of Income for Justices and Judges of the Supreme Court and the Inferior Courts of the United States
Author(s) -
PRICE BARRY A.
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.1540-5818.2007.00168.x
Subject(s) - declaration of independence , supreme court , law , george (robot) , declaration , political science , independence (probability theory) , history , constitution , statistics , mathematics , art history
Selected from a small committee to compose a first draft of a declaration of independence of the American colonies from Great Britain, Thomas Jefferson set pen to paper and began what would be a litany of offenses committed by the Crown against the people of the soon‐to‐be United States of America. Included in that world‐changing document was a passage dealing with the colonial judiciary and its past subjugation to the wishes of George III: