Without Precedent

by Joel Richard Paul

  Greene, Jack P. Political Life in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1986.

  Grigsby, Hugh Blair. The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788. 2 vols. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1890. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.

  Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

  Grotius, Hugo. The Rights of War and Peace. Edited by Richard Tuck. 3 vols. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.

  Gunther, Gerald. “Unearthing John Marshall’s Major Out-of-Court Constitutional Commentary.” Stanford Law Review 21, no. 3 (February 1969): 449–547.

  Gutzman, Kevin R. C. James Madison and the Making of America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2012.

  Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay, and James Madison. The Federalist. New York: Willey Book Co., 1901.

  Haskins, George Lee, and Herbert A. Johnson. History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Vol 2: Foundations of Power: John Marshall, 1801–1815. New York: Macmillan, 1981.

  Hatch, Louis Clinton. The Administration of the American Revolutionary Army. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904.

  Hendrickson, Robert A. The Rise and Fall of Alexander Hamilton. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981.

  Herring, George C. From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

  Hibbert, Christopher. The French Revolution. London: Penguin Books, 1982.

  Hill, Peter P. Napoleon’s Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804–1815. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005.

  ———. French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783–1793. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988.

  Hobson, Charles F. The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996.

  ———. “The Recovery of British Debts in the Federal Circuit Courts of Virginia, 1790 to 1797.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 92, no. 2 (April 1984): 176–200.

  Hoffer, Peter Charles. Law and People in Colonial America, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1998.

  ———. and N. E. H. Hull. Impeachment in America, 1635–1805. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984.

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1921.

  Holt, Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  Holton, Woody. Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.

  ———. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

  Horsnell, Margaret E. Spencer Roane: Judicial Advocate of Jeffersonian Principles. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986.

  Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

  Huebner, Timothy S. “Lawyer, Litigant, Leader: John Marshall and His Papers.” American Journal of Legal History 48 (July 2006): 314–326.

  ———. The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790–1890. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.

  ———. “The Consolidation of State Judicial Power: Spencer Roane, Virginia Legal Culture, and the Southern Judicial Tradition.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 102, no. 1 (January 1994): 47–72.

  Hungerford, Thomas L. CRS Report on U.S. Federal Government Revenue: 1790 to Present. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2006.

  Irons, Peter. A People’s History of the Supreme Court. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

  Irwin, Douglas A., and Richard Sylla, eds. Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

  Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia: 1740–1790. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

  ———. Worlds of Experience: Communities in Colonia Virginia. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1999.

  Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

  Isenberg, Nancy. Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr. New York: Penguin Books, 2007.

  Jessup, Philip C. American Neutrality and International Police. World Peace Foundation Pamphlet Series 1, 1928.

  Johnson, Herbert A. Gibbons v. Ogden: John Marshall, Steamboats, and the Commerce Clause. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010.

  ———. The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, 1801–1835. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.

  Johnson, John W., ed., Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2001.

  Kades, Eric. “History and Interpretation of the Great Case of Johnson v. M’Intosh.” Law and History Review 19, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 67–116.

  ———. “The Dark Side of Efficiency: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Expropriation of American Indian Lands.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 148 (April 2000): 1065–1190.

  Keitner, Chimène. “The Forgotten History of Foreign Official Immunity,” New York University Law Review 87, no. 3 (June 2012): 704–761.

  Kerber, Linda K. Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980.

  Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.

  Kettner, James H. The Development of American Citizenship, 1608–1870. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978.

  Kierner, Cynthia A. Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson’s America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

  King, David. Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008.

  Kline, Mary-Jo, and Joanne Wood, eds., Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr. 2 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.

  Koch, Adrienne. Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

  Konefsky, Samuel J. John Marshall and Alexander Hamilton: Architects of the American Constitution. New York: Macmillan, 1964.

  Kukla, Jon. A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

  Kulsrud, Carl J. “Armed Neutralities to 1780.” American Journal of International Law 29, no. 3 (July 1935): 423–447.

  Lambert, Frank. The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World. Boston: Hill and Wang, 2005.

  Lawday, David. Napoleon’s Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007.

  Leiner, Frederick C. “The Charming Betsy and the Marshall Court,” American Journal of Legal History 45, no. 1 (2001): 1–21.

  Lesser, Charles H., ed. The Sinews of Independence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

  Lillich, Richard B. “The Chase Impeachment.” American Journal of Legal History 4, no. 1 (1960): 49–72.

  Linklater, Andro. An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson. New York: Walker Publishing Co., 2009.

  Lockhart, Paul. The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

  Loth, David. Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Growth of the American Republic. New York: Greenwood Press, 1949.

  Lukens, Robert J. “Jared Ingersoll’s Rejection of Appointment as One of the “Midnight Judges” of 1801: Foolhardy or Farsighted?” Temple Law Review 70 (Spring 1997): 189–231.

  Madelin, Louis. Talleyrand: A Vivid Biography of the Amoral, Unscrupulous, and Fasci
nating French Statesman. Translated by Rosalie Feltenstein. New York: Roy, 1948.

  Magrath, C. Peter. Yazoo: Law and Politics in the New Republic. Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1966.

  Maier, Pauline. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010.

  Malone, Dumas. Jefferson the Virginian. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1948.

  ———. Jefferson and the Rights of Man. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1951.

  ———. Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.

  ———. Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970.

  ———. Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805–1809. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.

  Mapp, Alf. J., Jr. Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity. New York: Madison Books, 1987.

  Marsh, Philip. “James Monroe as ‘Agricola’ in the Genet Controversy, 1793,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 62, no. 4 (October 1954): 472–76.

  Marshall, John. The Life of George Washington. Vols. 1 and 2. Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne, first published in 1804; reprinted, New York: Walton Book Company, 1930.

  ———. An Autobiographical Sketch. Edited by John Stokes Adams. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.

  Martin, Peter. The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: From Jamestown to Jefferson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.

  Mashaw, Jerry L. Creating the Administrative Constitution: The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law. The Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

  Mason, Frances Norton. My Dearest Polly: Letters of Chief Justice John Marshall to His Wife, with Their Background, Political and Domestic, 1779–1831. Richmond, VA: Garret & Massie, 1961.

  McConnell, Michael W. “The Story of Marbury v. Madison: Making Defeat Look Like Victory,” in Constitutional Law Stories, 2nd. ed, edited by Michael C. Dorf. New York: Foundation Press, 2009.

  McCoy, Drew R. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

  McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

  ———. John Adams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

  McDonnell, Michael A. The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

  Meacham, Jon. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013.

  ———. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. New York: Random House, 2008.

  Merrick, Jeffrey, and Bryant T. Ragan Jr., eds. Homosexuality in Modern France. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

  Miller, F. Thornton. “John Marshall in Spencer Roane’s Virginia: The Southern Constitutional Opposition to the Marshall Court.” John Marshall Law Review 33, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 1131–1140.

  Minnigerode, Meade. Jefferson, Friend of France, 1793: The Career of Edmond Charles Genet, Minister Plenipotentiary from the French Republic to the United States, as Revealed by His Private Papers, 1763–1834. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928.

  Mordecai, Samuel. Richmond in By-Gone Days: Being Reminiscences of An Old Citizen. Richmond, VA: George M. West, 1856.

  Morgan, Edmund S. The Genius of George Washington. New York: W. W. Norton, 1980.

  ———. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton, 1975.

  ———. Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1952.

  Mori, Jennifer. William Pitt and the French Revolution, 1785–1795. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

  Myers, Margaret Good. A Financial History of the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.

  Nagle, John Copeland. “The Lame Ducks of Marbury.” Constitutional Commentary 20 (2003–2004): 317–342.

  Newmyer, R. Kent. The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

  ———. John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

  ———. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

  Newton, Nell Jessup. “Federal Power over Indians: Its Sources, Scope, and Limitations.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 132 (January 1984): 195–287.

  Noonan, John T., Jr. The Antelope: The Ordeal of the Recaptured Africans in the Administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

  Norgren, Jill. The Cherokee Cases: The Confrontation of Law and Politics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.

  Norton, Louis Arthur. Captains Contentious: The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009.

  O’Brien, Conor Cruise. The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785–1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

  O’Fallon, James M. “Marbury.” Stanford Law Review 44, no. 2 ( January 1992): 219–260.

  Oliver, Andrew. The Portraits of John Marshall. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977.

  Onuf, Peter S., ed. Jeffersonian Legacies. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

  Orieux, Jean. Talleyrand: The Art of Survival. Translated by Patricia Wolf. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

  Paul, Joel Richard. Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009.

  ———. “The Cost of Free Trade,” Brown Journal of World Affairs, 22, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2015).

  ———. “The Myth of Economic Interdependence,” Waseda Proceedings of Comparative Law 11, no. 3 (Spring 2009): 293–303.

  ———. “The Geopolitical Constitution,” California Law Review 86, no. 4 (1998): 671–773.

  ———. “Comity in International Law,” Harvard International Law Journal 32, no. 1 (Winter 1991).

  Pearson, Roger. Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom. New York: Bloomsbury, 2005.

  Perkins, Bradford. Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1805–1812. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.

  Peterson, Merrill D. The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

  ———. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

  Pflaum, Rosalynd. Talleyrand and His World. Afton, MN: Afton Press, 2010.

  Pitch, Anthony S. The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.

  Pole, J. R. Equality, Status, and Power in Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1998.

  Pollak, Louis H. The Constitution and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History. New York: World Publishing Co., 1966.

  Poniatowski, Michel. Talleyrand et le Directoire, 1796–1800. Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1982.

  Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore. “The Appointment and Removal of William J. Marbury and When an Office Vests.” Notre Dame Law Review 89, no. 1 (2013): 199–251.

  Pryor, John H. Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649–1571. New York: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1988.

  Pufendorf, Samuel. De Jure Naturae et Gentium. Translated by C. H. Oldfather and W. A. Oldfather. 2 vols. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1964.

  Rakove, Jack N. Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America. Boston: Mariner Books, 2011.

  ———. J
ames Madison and the Creation of the American Republic. New York: Longman, 2002.

  ———. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

  Remini, Robert V. Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

  ———. The Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

  Richards, Leonard L. Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

  Risjord, Norman K. Chesapeake Politics, 1781–1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.

  ———. “The Virginia Federalists.” Journal of Southern History 33 (1967): 486–517.

  Robertson, Lindsay G. Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

  Rossiter, Clinton. 1787: The Grand Convention. New York: W. W. Norton, 1966.

  Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

  Rudé, George. The French Revolution: Its Causes, Its History, and Its Legacy After 200 Years. New York: Grove Press, 1988.

  Rudko, Frances Howell. “Pause at the Rubicon, John Marshall and Emancipation: Reparations in the Early National Period?” John Marshall Law Review 35, no. 1 (2001): 75–89.

  ———. John Marshall and International Law: Statesman and Chief Justice. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.

  Rutherford, Thomas. Institutes of Natural Law. Clark, NJ: Lawbook Exchange, 2004. Originally published in 1832 by William and Joseph Neal.

  Satz, Ronald N. American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975.

  Schama, Simon. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

  Schiff, Stacy. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. New York: Henry Holt, 2005.

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Age of Jackson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1946.

  Schwartz, Bernard. A History of the Supreme Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

  Scott, H. M. British Foreign Policy in the Age of the American Revolution. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1990.