Preface
Part One: Judicial Power in the Early American Republic
1. A Historical and Theoretical Perspective
-Judicial Review
-Marbury, Blackston, and the Constitution
-Constitutional Review in the Early American Republic
2. The Blackstonian Inheritance
-Roman Antecedents
-French, Italian, and English Antecedents
-Conclusion
3. The Emergence of and Early American Doctrine of Judicial Power
-The Colonial Period
-The Revolutionary Period
-Conclusions
4. The Federal Convention
-The Council Proposal
-The Judicial Function
-The Ratification Struggle
-The 1790s
Part Two: A Precedent for All Seasons
5. The Case of Marbury v. Madison
-Background
-The Case
-Summary Dismissal
-Statutory Construction
-The Exceptions Clause
-Judicial Review
-Conclusions
6. Judicial Review in the Marshall and Taney Periods
-Contemporaneous Reaction to Marbury
-Legal Treatises during the Marshall and Taney Periods
-Van Buren’s View of Marbury
-Jackson and Lincoln on Judicial Review
7. The Strange History of Marbury in the Supreme Court
-Marbury in the Supreme Court, Nineteenth Century
-Marbury in the Supreme Court, Twentieth Century
-Conclusions
8. Eakin v. Raub: Refutation or Justification of Marbury v. Madison?
-Justice Gibson’s Dissent
-Marbury Revisited
-Conclusions
Part Three: The Creation of Judicial Myth
9. Public and/or Private Contracts
-The Contract Clause in the Founding Era
-The Contract Clause in the Early Supreme Court
-The Contract Clause in the Late Marshall and Taney Eras
-The Shift
-The Argument against Marshall’s Critics
-Effects of the Shift
10. The Great Debate on the Judicial Function
-Background
-Post-Civil War Treatises
-The Great Debate
-The Aftermath
11. A Reinterpretation of American Constitutional History
-The Attack on Marbury and Judicial Review
-A Marbury Centennial?
-Prelude to the Progressive Revision
-The Progressive Revision
-Beveridge’s Marbury
12. Beyond the Mythical Marbury
-Nationalism and the Marshall Court
-Substantive Due Process and Selective Incorporation
-Judicial Review in the Twentieth Century
-Marbury Commentary in the Twentieth Century
-Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index