Debates on the Federal Judiciary: A Documentary History; Volume I: 1787-1875, Volume II: 1875-1939, and Volume III: 1939-2005
Washington DC: Federal Judicial Center/Federal Judicial History Office, 2013-2018. Presumed First Edition, First printings. Trade paperback. Three volume set: Volume I: 1787-1875, viii, 276, [4] pages [2013]; Volume II: 1875-1939, ix, [1], 266, [4] pages [2013]; Volume III: 1939-2005, xiii, [1], 334, [2] pages [2018]. Appendix. Bibliographic Note. For Further Reference. Index. Covers have minor wear and soiling. The Documentary History of Debates on the Federal Judiciary traces the long process of defining the judiciary within the relatively brief outline provided by the Constitution. These volumes include annotated excerpts from debates on the establishment and jurisdiction of federal trial courts, judicial tenure and the impeachment of judges, judicial review of state court decisions, circuit riding and the expansion of the court system to serve a growing nation, and the impact of major events on the federal courts. Introduces readers to public debates on proposals to alter the organization, jurisdiction, and administration of the federal courts, as well as the tenure and authority of federal judges, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The documents illustrate the contending views of lawyers, judges, legislators, legal scholars, and ordinary citizens on the judiciary’s role in American constitutional government. Documents are drawn from a variety of governmental and nongovernmental sources, including congressional floor debates, testimony in congressional hearings, bar association meetings, public addresses, legal treatises, law reviews, and popular periodicals. Bruce A. Ragsdale served for twenty years as director of the Federal Judicial History Office at the Federal Judicial Center. The author of A Planters’ Republic: The Search for Economic Independence in Revolutionary Virginia, he has been a fellow at the Washington Library at Mount Vernon and the International Center for Jefferson Studies. He was Mount Vernon’s inaugural fellow with the Georgian Papers Programme. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Daniel S. Holt was the Assistant Historian, Federal Judicial History Office. Jake Kobrick was an Associate Historian, Federal Judicial History Office. The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government. The U.S. federal judiciary consists primarily of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts. It also includes a variety of other lesser federal tribunals. Article III of the Constitution requires the establishment of a Supreme Court and permits the Congress to create other federal courts and place limitations on their jurisdiction. Article III states that federal judges are appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate to serve until they resign, are impeached and convicted, or die. The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency of the United States federal courts. It was established by Pub. L. 90–219 in 1967, at the recommendation of the Judicial Conference of the United States. According to 28 U.S.C. § 620, the main areas of responsibility for the Center include: conducting and promoting "research and study of the operation of the courts of the United States," and to act to encourage and coordinate the same by others; developing "recommendations for improvement of the administration and management of [U.S.] courts," and presenting these to the Judicial Conference of the U.S.; and through all means available, see to conducting programs for the "continuing education and training for personnel" of the U.S. judiciary, for all employees in the justice system, from judges through probation officers and mediators. In addition to these major provisions, §620 (b)(4)(5)(6) sets forth the additional provisions that the FJC will (i) provide staff and assistance to the Judicial Conference and component bodies, (ii) coordinate programs and research on the administration of justice with the State Justice Institute, and (iii) cooperatively assist other government agencies in providing advice, and receiving advice, regarding judicial administration in foreign countries, in each of these cases, to the extent it is "consistent with the performance of the other functions set forth" earlier. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Federal Judiciary, Documentary History, Judges, Courts, Judicial Tenure, Judicial Review, Circuit Riding, Impeachment, Federal Jurisdiction, Judicial Power, Executive Power, Judicial Independence, Appellate System, Bankruptcy, Criminal Justice
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