Blackstone in America : Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer (Paperback)

1. Introduction Stanley N. Katz; Part I. Law and Politics in the Early Republic: 2. Introduction Maeva Marcus; 3. Federalist policy and the Judiciary Act of 1801; 4. The appointment of Chief Justice Marshall; 5. The midnight judges; 6. US v. Callender: judge and jury in a republican society; Part II. The Law of Crimes in Post-Revolutionary America: 7. Introduction Kent Newmyer; 8. Penal measures in the American colonies: an overview; 9. Crime, the criminal law and reform in post-revolutionary Virginia; 10. Jurisdiction to punish: authority, federalism and the common law of crimes in the early republic; Part III. The History of the Book and Trans-Atlantic Connections: 11. Introduction Mary Sarah Bilder; 12. Beccaria and the founding fathers; 13. Two enlightened criminal law reformers: Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and Peter Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany.