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A Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court
Widely regarded as America's most important Chief Justice, John Marshall influenced US constitutional, political, and economic development. This study views his pre-Supreme Court life as a cumulative experience that formed the identity and value system brought to bear on his judicial experiences.
Author(s) | By David Robarge. |
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 400 |
Published in | United States |
Published | 28 Feb 2000 |
Availability | Not yet available |
Widely regarded as America's most important Chief Justice, John Marshall influenced US constitutional, political, and economic development. This study views his pre-Supreme Court life as a cumulative experience that formed the identity and value system brought to bear on his judicial experiences.
Prologue: Appointment Childhood in the Frontier Gentry, 1755-1774 The Revolutionary War Experience, 1774-1781 Lawyer and Lawmaker in the Old Dominion, 1781-1787 Virginia Nationalist, 1787-1791 Southern Federalist (I), 1791-1797 Diplomatic Interlude:
DAVID ROBARGE is a historian with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he has also worked as a political analyst./e Prior to that he worked on the staff of David Rockefeller and at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University. He has taug