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Marbury V. Madison, Lord Coke And Dr. Bonham: Relics Of The Past, Guidelines For The Present: Judicial Review In Transition?, George P. Smith Ii
Marbury V. Madison, Lord Coke And Dr. Bonham: Relics Of The Past, Guidelines For The Present: Judicial Review In Transition?, George P. Smith Ii
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It will be the purpose of this article to explore the modern significance of Coke's influence as analyzed and interpreted through the famous Bonham's Case and thereby to provide an insight into the development of our own concepts of judicial review, as borrowed from the English, in its original historical-legal perspective and as seen through the decision in Marbury v. Madison and applied modernly in the principal case of Baker v.Carr.
David Hoffman And The Shaping Of A Republican Legal Culture, Maxwell Bloomfield
David Hoffman And The Shaping Of A Republican Legal Culture, Maxwell Bloomfield
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In recent years scholars have paid increasing attention to the concept of "republicanism" as a measure of cultural change in America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To the Revolutionary generation republicanism connoted most obviously a representative form of government, based upon popular sovereignty and limited in its powers by a written constitution. But republican ideology encompassed far more than the restructuring of political institutions. It called for a regenerated society as well, in which men should be encouraged to pursue their individual destinies with a minimum of interference from public authorities. Civic morality and self-determination were closely …
The Texas Bar In The Nineteenth Century, Maxwell Bloomfield
The Texas Bar In The Nineteenth Century, Maxwell Bloomfield
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