Preserving judicial independence: an exegesis.

From: Fordham Urban Law Journal | Date: February 1, 2002| Author: Carlton, Alfred P., Jr. | Copyright information

When the English landed in Jamestown in 1607, they brought to our shores their language, their government, their commercial system, and their courts. (1) We kept the first three but threw the fourth one back. The court system, at least in the colonies, was badly flawed.

Over the seventeen days in which Thomas Jefferson wove the Declaration of Independence, he carefully selected the threads of twenty-seven specific grievances against the King to make his case for American...

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