This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.

Haines shows the gradual development of judicial power and authority through this study of conflicting opinions over the right of the judiciary to nullify legislative acts, which includes discussion of resistance from the states, attitudes about the slavery controversy and the effects of Jacksonian democracy. This title was originally published in the Columbia University series Studies in History, Economics and Public Law. Contents Chapter I: Judicial Powers Before the Adoption of the Federal Constitution Chapter II: Early Conflicts Over Judicial Nullification by Federal Courts Chapter III: Extension of Federal Judicial Authority Chapter IV: Conflicts Over the Extension of Judicial Authority Chapter V: Principles of the Jacksonian Democracy Chapter VI: Judicial Powers from 1856 to 1870 180 pp.