Machine generated contents note: 1. Creating the Court -- Federal Courts' Subject-Matter Jurisdiction -- Judicial Appointments -- Good Behavior and Compensation -- Judicial Review -- Nonjudicial Duties -- Looking to the Future -- 2. Judiciary Act of 1789 -- Drafting the Judiciary Act -- Opposition to the Federal Courts -- Seeds of a Compromiss -- Limiting the Supreme Court's Jurisdiction -- Federal Trial Courts: Admiralty Jurisdiction -- Shaping the Compromise on Federal Trial Courts -- Congress Accepts Ellsworth's Compromise -- Congressional Instrumentalism -- 3. Selecting the Justices and Initial Operations -- First Nominees -- Assessing Washington's Nomination Criteria -- 4. National Security Court -- Nootka Sound Crisis -- Relations with France and Great Britain -- Neutrality Proclamation -- Treaty of Alliance and the Correspondence of the Justices -- Admiralty Jurisdiction Î
Summary
An insightful look at the first Supreme Court and the controversies that surrounded the judicial body