The Role of Circuit Courts in the Formation of United States Law in the Early Republic: Following Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, Story and Thompson

Acknowledgements\nTable of Contents\nTable of Cases\nIntroduction\n1 The Supreme Court Justices and the Circuit Court Experiment\n	A Team Effort\n	Why Washington, Livingston, Story, and Thompson?\n2 The Federal Circuit Courts: Shaping Local and National Justice for an Emerging Republic\n	The Politics of Federal Law\n	The Grand Jury Charge: A Bond between Government and Citizen\n	The Circuit Court Discourse in the Constitutional Ratification and Senate Debates\n	The Jurisdiction of the Federal Circuit Courts\n	\'A Certain Uniformity of Decision in United States Law\'\n	Conclusion\n3 Bushrod Washington: The Role of Precedent and the Preservation of Vested Interests\n	A Federalist\'s Journey from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court\n	Justice Washington and the Role of Precedent in the Federal Legal System\n	Property Rights and Commercial Law on Circuit\n	States\'\rRights, the War of 1812, and Slavery\n	Conclusion\n4 Henry Brockholst Livingston: Consolidating Mercantile Law\n	The Early Years: Political Allegiances: From Federalist to Republican\n	Commercial Law for New York State\n	A Republican on a Federalist Supreme Court\n	Maritime and Commercial Law for the United States\n	Conclusion\n5 Joseph Story: Admiralty Expertise and the Importation of Common Law\n	A Modernising Influence on Law and Procedure on the First Circuit\n	Admiralty and the Enforcement of Embargo Laws\n	Consistency Through the Sharing of Expertise\n	The Supremacy of Federal Law\n	The Protection of Minority Groups\n	Importing Common Law into the Federal Legal System\n	Conclusion\n6 Justice Smith Thompson: Promoting Commerce, State Sovereignty and the Protection of the Cherokee Nation\n	State Supreme Court: Statutory Interpretation and New York\r\'Hard Law\'\n	Contractual Obligations on the Second Circuit and on the Court\n	\'What is to be Left to the States?\'\n	The Cherokee Nation and the African-American Slave\n	Conclusion\nConclusion\nAppendix A: Reversal Rates\n	Reversal rates\n	District of Columbia Circuit Courts\n	Reversal rates of 15 Supreme Court justices between 1801 and 1835\nAppendix B: Majority opinions delivered by the justices\n	Seriatim opinions during the Marshall years\nAppendix C: Legal Education and Prior Judicial Experience of United States Supreme Court Justices 1801–1835\n	Conclusions\nBibliography\n	Primary Sources\nIndex