TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerber,Scott Douglas
TI  - A distinct judicial power: the origins of an independent judiciary, 1606-1787 
SN  - 9780199765874 
U1  - 347.73 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford, New York, N.Y.
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Judicial independence
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Judges
KW  - Judicial power
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-396) and index; The history of ideas : from Aristotle's theory of a mixed constitution to John Adams's modifications of Montesquieu -- Article III of the Constitution of the United States -- Virginia : constitutionalizing judicial independence prior to the U.S. Constitution -- Massachusetts : a "safety-valve" theory of judicial independence -- New Hampshire : judicial review in the Rockingham County inferior court -- Maryland : Chancellor Theodorick Bland and salaries that "ought to be secured" -- Connecticut : disestablishment and judicial independence -- Rhode Island : last bastion of legislative supremacy -- North Carolina : Governor Thomas Burke and the origins of judicial review -- South Carolina : judicial review without an independent judiciary -- New Jersey : the first state court precedent for judicial review -- New York : persistent threats to judicial independence -- Pennsylvania : (almost) adopting the federal model -- Delaware : a high court of errors and appeals -- Georgia : ineffective and dependent judges -- Conclusion
ER  -