Major opinions and other writings. Edited with an introd. and commentary by John P. Roche, with Stanley B. Bernstein.

Author: Marshall, John, 1755-1835.

Imprint:Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [1967]

Descriptionxli, 320 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:PART ONE: PRE-JUDICIAL STATEMENTS: At the Virginia Ratifying Convention (1788) -- Address to Richmond on diplomacy (1798) -- Campaign Tract (1798) -- Upholding the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) -- The authority of the president (1800) -- PART TWO: THE JURISDICTION OF THE SUPREME COURT: Judicial review of Congress: Marbury v. Madison 00 Judicial review over the States: Cohens v. Virginia -- Diversity Jurisdiction: The District of Columbia: Hepburn v. Ellsey -- Diversity jurisdiction: The territories: New Orleans v. Winter -- Diversity jurisdiction: Corporations: Bank of United States v. Deveaux -- PART THREE: CONTRACTS AND STATE AUTHORITY: Land grants are charters: Fletcher v. Peck -- Charters are contracts: Dartmouth College v. Woodward -- Tax exemptions in contracts, I: New Jersey v. Wilson -- Natural law and contracts: Odgen v. Saunders -- Tax exemption in contracts, II: Providence Bank v. Billings -- PART FOUR: THE PROTECTION OF FEDERAL FINANCE: The Union as preferred creditor: United States v. Fisher -- Implied powers: the Bank of the United States: McCulloch v. Maryland -- Taxing fiscl instruments: Weston v. Charleston -- State currency: Craig v. Missouri -- PART FIVE: COMMERCE AND STATE AUTHORITY: Navigation as commerce, I: Brig Wilson v. United States -- Navigation as commerce, II: Gibbons v. Ogden -- Commerce in original packages: Brown v. Maryland -- Commerce on small streams: Willson v. Blackbird Creek Marsh Co. -- PART SIX: TREATIES AND TERRITORIES: Legislative courts in the territories: American Insurance Co. v. Canter -- Land claims under treaties: Foster v. Neilson -- The constitutional status of Indian nations: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia -- Treaty law over state law: Worcester v. Georgia -- PART SEVEN: CIVIL RIGHTS: The law of treason, I: Ex parte Bollman -- The law of treason, II: United States v. Aaron Burr -- The Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. xxxvii-xxxix.

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