The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888–1910Univ of South Carolina Press, 2012 M11 1 - 257 pages A study of the man who led the Supreme Court as the nineteenth century ended and the twentieth began, exploring issues of property, government authority, and more. |
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... decision making . Fuller's judicial record marked him as a political and economic conservative , but he was willing ... decisions of the political branches or to overturn earlier precedent . In so doing , he led the Court to articulate ...
... decision was later affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States after Fuller's appointment as chief justice . He , of course , recused himself from the deliberations . 26 Fuller's most famous case was his defense of Rev. Charles E ...
... decision in Julliard v. Greenman (1884), which upheld the power of Congress to issue peacetime legal tender notes. Adopting a strict construction of congressional authority, he reasoned that “Congress can exercise no power by virtue of ...
... decision partly on the need for a representative of the Seventh Circuit (Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin) on the Supreme Court. The structure of the federal judicial system reinforced Cleveland's decision to name a justice from this ...
... decision in which the Supreme Court sustained the issuance of legal tender notes in peacetime . Opponents of Fuller hinted that , as chief justice , he might be inclined to reverse Julliard . Fuller's backers responded that , whatever ...
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Conservative Jurisprudence in the Age of Enterprise | |
Safeguarding Entrepreneurial Liberty | |
Defending the National Market | |
Civil Liberties Equal Rights and Criminal Justice | |
Issues of Government | |
Private Litigation | |
Betting on the Future | |