“A story of mystery with melodrama refreshingly absent.”
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MEIGS, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY. Relation of the judiciary to the constitution. $2 W: J. Campbell, 1731 Chestnut st., Philadelphia 342.7
This study of the relation of the judiciary to the constitution is a defence of judicial supremacy. The author’s studies have led him to believe that its origin antedates Marbury vs. Madison and he argues that “the judiciary was plainly pointed out by our history for the vast function it has exercised, and that it was expected and intended, both by the Federal convention and the opinion of the publicists of the day, to exercise that function.” Two chapters on The British colonies in North America and The public beliefs of our colonial days are followed by an examination of cases. There is an index. The author has written “The growth of the constitution,” also lives of Calhoun and Thomas H. Benton.
“This careful volume should take its place among the essays of high authority in our legal literature. The discussion of individual leading cases which Mr Meigs gives us is of deep interest.” S. L. C.
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“The result will prove disappointing to the special student of the subject, though it is not without value for the general reader. Altogether it seems not unjust to remark that Mr Meigs will probably be remembered for his pioneer article of a generation ago, rather than for this more ambitious but one-sided and unoriginal study.” E: S. Corwin
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MEIKLEJOHN, ALEXANDER. Liberal college. *$2.50 (4c) Jones, Marshall 378