Concept
Supreme Court of the United States
Overview
highest court of jurisdiction in the United States of America
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The next superior court to that of the hundred was the county-court, which met twice a year, after Michaelmas and Easter, and consisted of the freeholders of the county, who possessed an equal vote in the decision of causes. The bishop presided in this court, together with the alderman; and the proper object of the court was the receiving of appeals from the hundreds and decennaries, and the deciding of such…
David Hume, The History of England, Volume I
Close in meaning to Supreme Court of the United States; the term itself is not named.
This involves the remarkable consequence, actually realized in the United States, that a court of justice, the highest federal tribunal, is supreme over the various governments, both state and federal, having the right to declare that any law made, or act done by them, exceeds the powers assigned to them by the federal Constitution, and, in consequence, has no legal validity. It was natural to feel strong doubts…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
Close in meaning to Supreme Court of the United States; the term itself is not named.
Every magistrate is a judge, and every judge is a magistrate, on the day on which he is deciding the suit. This will therefore be an appropriate place to speak of judges and their functions. The supreme tribunal will be that on which the litigants agree; and let there be two other tribunals, one for public and the other for private causes. The high court of appeal shall be composed as follows:--All the officers of…
Plato, Laws
Close in meaning to Supreme Court of the United States; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Supreme Court of the United States
- Feminism
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- John Finnis
- Robert P. George
- Ronald Dworkin
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Confucius
- Cornel West
- Roscoe Pound
- Lysander Spooner
- Emma Goldman
- Duncan Kennedy (legal philosopher)
Related ideas
- Executive (government)
- Washington, D.C.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Federalism
- Establishment Clause
- Ivy League
- Judaism
- Harvard Law School
- James Madison
- The Wall Street Journal
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
- Southern United States
- Library of Congress
- New Deal
- The Guardian
- United States House of Representatives
- Methodism
- North America
- Authoritarianism
- African Americans
- John Jay
- James Wilson (Founding Father)
- Ottoman Empire
- President of the United States
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.
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