Mathis, Doyle - Georgia before the Supreme Court : the first decade.

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Mathis, Doyle - Georgia before the Supreme Court : the first decade.

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The collection consists of a typed manuscript of an article about three cases in which Georgia was a party before the Supreme Court during the Court's first ten years of existence. These cases were: Chisholm vs. Georgia; Georgia vs. Brailsford; and Moultrie vs. Georgia. The article was published in the American Journal of Legal History.

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United States. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

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Doyle Mathis was the provost and professor of government emeritus at Berry College and was the head of the Political Science Department at West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia. Chisholm vs. Georgia (1793) is considered by many to be the first great United States Supreme Court case. The paper presents the case of South Carolina residents executing the estate of Alexander Chisholm, who sued the state of Georgia in the Supreme Court over payments due them for goods tha...