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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... tenure of Melville W. Fuller as chief justice. This book is in the style of a judicial biography. Although one focus is on Fuller's leadership, careful attention is also given to the work of the Supreme Court as a whole and the course ...
... tenure of all justices on the Supreme Court during Fuller's tenure has been placed at the end of the volume. Much of the information contained in this work was drawn from archival sources. I have used the following abbreviations in ...
... tenure did cramp legislative power , but not in all respects and not always with the same emphasis . Despite a professed faith in free - market forces , the justices did not consistently follow any economic theory in resolving cases ...
... tenure , was composed of diverse and strong - willed individuals . Perhaps the biggest prima donna was Justice Stephen J. Field . Appointed by President Abraham Lincoln , Field pioneered a broad reading of the due process clause of the ...
... tenure. The decade of the 1890s produced an unusually large fluctuation in the Court's membership. Five of the justices sitting when Fuller joined the Court died by 1893, and Justice Field resigned in 1897. Several of the newly ...
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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 | |