Distinct Judicial Power: The Origins of an Independent Judiciary, 1606-1787

by Scott Douglas Gerber

A Distinct Judicial Power: The Origins of an Independent Judiciary, 1606-1787, by Scott Douglas Gerber, provides the first comprehensive critical analysis of the origins of judicial independence in the United States. Part I examines the political theory of an independent judiciary. Gerber begins chapter 1 by tracing the intellectual origins of a distinct judicial power from Aristotle's theory of a mixed constitution to John Adams's modifications of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199765871
• ISBN13: 9780199765874
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"