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Judicial branch, 245, 268–69, 400
adherence to procedure, 476
authority vs. power, 509–10
Congressional control of, 511–13
independence of, 335, 464, 500–508,
514
lack of discretionary authority, 515
lack of in Articles of Confederation,
159
lower courts, 513–14
overburdened, 597
recognition of common law, 35
See also Supreme Court of the
United States
Judicial construction, 463
Judicial power, 311–12, 508–11
amendment limiting, 566–67
Congressional limits on, 268,
511–13
defined, 509–10
limited by Federalism, 510–11
Judicial review, 331
of administrative decisions, 347
doctrine of, 119, 348, 476–85
extension of rule of law, 349
as legislative power, 331, 336
of State court decisions and State
laws, 483–85
types of, 463–66, 485
Judicial self-restraint, doctrine of, 475
Judiciary Act of 1789, 36, 268, 484, 485,
513–14, 553
Judiciary Act of 1801, 495, 519
Jurisdiction, of Supreme Court,
486–87, 510, 511–16, 528–32
Jurisprudence, 597
Just compensation, 410, 420, 421
in Northwest Ordinance, 458
Justice, 4, 350
defined, 5
varying meanings of, 127
Justices of the Peace, 107
Index
Justinian, Emperor, 34
Justinian Code, 35
Kendall, Willmoore, xvii
Kent, James: Commentaries on American
Law, 36, 239, 414
Kentucky, 308
Kentucky Resolutions, 492–94
King, Rufus, 251, 269, 270
King-in-Parliament, 30, 298
King’s councils (Witans), 26
Korea, Republic of, Constitution, 4
Labor relations, 344–45
Laissez-faire economics, 343
Lame Duck Amendment, 583–85
Law, intent of, 466–67
Law of nations, 509
Laws, hierarchy of, 463, 477–80
League of Nations, 156
Lee, Richard Henry, 117, 390
absence from Constitutional
Convention, 119, 253
accusation of plagiarism against
Jefferson, 125
proposal to dissolve colonial
relationship with England, 152
and Virginia’s sea-to-sea claim, 154
Lee, Robert E., 494
Legal education, 597
Legal positivism, 127
Legislative assemblies, 481
Legislative courts, 506
Legislative residency, 98–99
Legislative supremacy, 349, 477
American rejection of, 1, 33–34
lack of protection against in first
state constitutions, 150
rejection of by First Continental
Congress, 90
Letters of a Farmer in Pennsylvania
(Dickinson), 113