med by the Supreme Court of the United States are
among the most difficult and perilous which are to be performed under
the Constitution. They demand the loftiest range of talents and learning
and a soul of Roman purity and firmness. The questions which come before
them frequently involve the fate of the Constitution, the happiness of
the whole Nation, and even its peace as it concerns other nations." In
the light of the decisions reviewed, the nationalizing tendency of the
federal judiciary is unmistakable. But a constitutional reaction had set
in; and even while John Marshall was setting forth the doctrine of
national sovereignty in its most uncompromising form, John C. Calhoun in
the quiet of his estate in South Carolina was elaborating a defense of
state rights on premises which the great Chief Justice had combated for
a quarter of a century.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

An adequate history of the Supreme Court has yet to be written. H.
L. Carson, _The History of the Supreme Court of the United States,
with biographies of all the chief and associate justices_ (2 vols.,
1902-04), and H. Flanders, _The Lives and Times of the
Chief-Justices of the Supreme Court_ (2 vols., 1855-58), are
serviceable works. The best selection of cases on constitutional
law is that by J. B. Thayer, _Cases in Constitutional Law_ (2 vols.,
1894-95). Some of the more important decisions may be found
abridged in Allen Johnson's _Readings in American Constitutional
History_ (1912). W. W. Willoughby, _The Supreme Court: its History
and Influence in our Constitutional System_ (1890), and _The American
Constitutional System_ (1904), are interesting volumes by an
authority on constitutional law. J. P. Kennedy, _Memoirs of the Life
of William Wirt_ (2 vols., 1850); G. J. McRee, _Life and
Correspondence of James Iredell_ (2 vols., 1857-58); W. W. Story,
_Life and Letters of Joseph Story_ (2 vols., 1851); and G. T.
Curtis, _Life of Daniel Webster_ (2 vols., 1870), contribute to an
understanding of the relation of the federal bench and bar.
Especially valuable is Charles Warren's _History of the American
Bar, Colonial and Federal, to 1860_ (1911). The progress of American
law is reviewed in _Two Centuries' Growth of American Law,
1701-1901_, by members of the faculty of the Yale Law School.

INDEX

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