The Constitution In The Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888

The Constitution in the Supreme Court

by David P. Currie

The First Hundred Years 1789-1888.Histories of the Supreme Court and of Constitution abound, as do legal analyses of constitutional decisions. The aim is to provide a critical history, analyzing from a lawyer's standpoint the entire constitutional work of the Court's first one hundred years.

518 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

David P. Currie was the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, noted for his histories of the Constitution in Congress and the Supreme Court, his casebooks on federal courts and conflict of laws, and his award-winning teaching at the Law School.