Bulletin n. 2/2006 | ||
September 2006 | ||
Newmyer R. Kent |
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Thomas Jefferson and the Rise of the Supreme Court | ||
in Journal of Supreme Court History , July 2006 - Vol. 31 Issue 2 , 2006 , 126-140 | ||
American constitutional history in the early national period seems at times to be a conversation—or an argument—among Virginians. There's James Madison, George Washington, George Mason, John Taylor of Caroline County, Judge Spencer Roane, John Randolph of Roanoke, to mention only some. At the center of this constellation were John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson. | ||