Federal courts in the early Republic : Kentucky, 1789-1816 /

Tachau, Mary K. Bonsteel, 1926-

Federal courts in the early Republic : Kentucky, 1789-1816 / Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1978. - 1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations, tables. - Princeton Legacy Library .

Includes bibliographies and index.

On the basis of both civil and criminal suits, some private and some brought by the government, Professor Tachau demonstrates that the federal courts in Kentucky were immediately accessible, visible, and deeply involved in the lives of the people. The actual legal practice revealed in the records thus contradicts much of the conventional wisdom and traditional assumptions about the ""inferiority"" of the lower federal judiciary and suggests that a major revision of American legal and constitutional history may be in order. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the.



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Courts--History.--Kentucky
Law--History.--Kentucky
Law--History.--United States
Courts--History.--Kentucky
Law--History.--Kentucky
Law--History.--United States


Electronic Books.

KFK1278 / .F434 1978