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September 19, 2004
Politics as Usual
After reading Marbury a few weeks ago (don't get me started on why Con Law is a 2L class here), I was intrigued by the political machinations that led up to it and the fallout from it so a friend of mine loaned me his copy of What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States, by James F. Simon, a law prof at NYU. I skipped American history in undergrad in favor of the more broad History of Western Civilization, so I'm learning a few things. Looking back, I wish I had taken the American history track. In fact, I think it's a good idea for universities to require two semesters of it.
I'll have more to say about this book later, but having just finished the chapter that delves into prosecutions under the Sedition Act, I'm really, really looking forward to the part of the book in which Supreme Court Justice Samuel P. Chase is impeached.
Posted by Half-Cocked at September 19, 2004 12:55 AM