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Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story

Statesman of the Old Republic

R. Kent Newmyer

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 01/2004
Pages: 512
Subject: Biography and Autobiography, History, Law | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807864029

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The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican values generated by the American Revolution. Story's greatest objective was to fashion a national jurisprudence that would carry the American people into the modern age without losing those values.