Background
Charles Frederic Hobson was born on March 27, 1943, in Mobile, Alabama, United States. He is a son of Richmond Pearson (a civil engineer) and Alice Chambers (Carey) Hobson.
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Charles F. Hobson received Bachelor of Arts at Brown University in 1965.
Charles F. Hobson entered Emory University where he became Master of Arts in 1966.
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Charles F. Hobson became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1971.
(Clarifies the thrust of Marshall's jurisprudence while ke...)
Clarifies the thrust of Marshall's jurisprudence while keeping in sight the man as well as the jurist. Argues that Marshall was not an ideologue intent in appropriating the lawmaking powers of Congress, but rather was deeply committed to a principled jurisprudence based on a science of law steeped in the common law tradition.
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1996
(In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the state’s western...)
In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the state’s western lands (present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to four private land companies. A year later, amid revelations of bribery, a newly elected legislature revoked the sale. This book tells the story of how the great Yazoo lands sale gave rise to the 1810 case in which the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Marshall, for the first time ruled the action of a state to be in violation of the Constitution, specifically the contract clause. Truly a landmark case, Fletcher v. Peck established a judicial review of state legislative proceedings, provided a gloss on the contract clause, and established the preeminent role of the Supreme Court in private law matters. Beneath the case’s dry legal proceedings lay a tangle of speculating mania, corruption, and political rivalry, which Charles Hobson unravels with narrative aplomb. As the scene shifts from the frontier to the courtroom, and from Georgia to New England, the cast of characters includes sharp dealers like Robert Morris, hot-headed politicians like James Jackson, and able counsel like John Quincy Adams, along with, of course, John Marshall himself. The improbably dramatic tale opens a window on land transactions, Indian relations, and the politics of the early nation, thereby revealing how the controversy over the Yazoo lands sale reflected a deeper crisis over the meaning of republicanism.
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Charles Frederic Hobson was born on March 27, 1943, in Mobile, Alabama, United States. He is a son of Richmond Pearson (a civil engineer) and Alice Chambers (Carey) Hobson.
Charles F. Hobson received Bachelor of Arts at Brown University in 1965. Then he entered Emory University where he became Master of Arts in 1966 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1971.
Hobson is editor of The Papers of John Marshall at the Institute of Early American History and Culture, College of William and Mary. Prior to coming to William & Mary in 1979, Hobson was at the University of Virginia, where he edited several volumes of The Papers of James Madison. He is the author of The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law (1996), editor of John Marshall: Writings (2010). In addition to articles on James Madison and John Marshall, he is the author of The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law (1996). In 2006, Hobson completed the twelfth and final volume of The Papers of John Marshall.
Hobson recently published a comprehensive three-volume edition of St. George Tucker's Law Reports and Selected Papers, (2012) which is an unsurpassed archive for studying the "republicanization" of the common law as it unfolded in the сommonwealth of Virginia.
(In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the state’s western...)
(Clarifies the thrust of Marshall's jurisprudence while ke...)
1996
Married Ann Loflin Hobson (a historical interpreter) on December 29, 1969. They have two children: Elizabeth and John.