St. George Tucker's Law Reports and Selected Papers, 1782–1825

[...]Tucker traveled to Richmond for the General Court's April 1786 session and began taking careful, voluminous notes of Virginia's legal proceedings-a practice he continued as he became first a state and then a federal judge. [...]in recent years, the United States Supreme Court has redi...

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Published in:Journal of Southern History 2014, Vol.80 (2), p.453-455
Main Author: Lowe, Jessica K.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
American history
Court hearings & proceedings
Federal court decisions
Law
State courts
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Summary:[...]Tucker traveled to Richmond for the General Court's April 1786 session and began taking careful, voluminous notes of Virginia's legal proceedings-a practice he continued as he became first a state and then a federal judge. [...]in recent years, the United States Supreme Court has rediscovered St. George Tucker and has cited his writings as evidence of early, contemporary understandings of constitutional text.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893