Background
Johnson, Herbert Alan was born on January 10, 1934 in Jersey City. Son of Harry Oliver and Magdalena Gertrude (Diemer) Johnson.
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Foundations of Power: John Marshall, 1801-1815 is the second volume of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United Sates. The volume covers the beginnings of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall and surveys the first fourteen years of John Marshall's tenure. The authors describe the judicial business transacted by the chief justice and the ten Associate Justices with whom he served during those years. They argue that John Marshall's great accomplishment as Chief Justice was to establish the rule of law as the basis of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence. The book chronicles how, by becoming "a bulwark of an identifiable rule of law as distinct from the accommodations of politics," the relatively feeble institution of the 1790s moved toward the authoritative Marshall Court of 1819.
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What began as a standoff between competing steamship entrepreneurs ended as one of the Supreme Court's most significant cases. Gibbons v. Ogden in 1824 brought into sharp relief the ongoing tug-of-war for power between individual states and the federal government. By applying the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, the Court set a key precedent for federal authority. But, behind the scenes, the "Steamboat Case" also demonstrated Chief Justice John Marshall's instrumental role as mediator on the bench. Untangling the issues and the arguments in Gibbons, Herbert Johnson reveals the lasting impact of this landmark case on both commerce in the Early Republic and the understanding and growth of federal power during the last 200 years. Johnson brings the case's protagonists including Marshall and Daniel Webster vividly to life and deftly illuminates its key aspects: the ambiguity of the Court's judgment; Justice William Johnson's nationalist-oriented concurring opinion; Marshall's avoidance of such key issues as the role of the dormant commerce clause and the relationship of foreign trade, interstate commerce, and diplomatic relations; and Marshall's failure to address patents and state monopolies. Perhaps most significant, the author challenges the traditional view that Gibbons established that the Constitution bestowed upon Congress an exclusive power to regulate interstate commerce. Drawing on recent research into the early Court, Johnson shows how Gibbons provides a salient example of Marshall's ability to gain agreement despite severe differences among his colleagues. No longer surrounded by fellow Federalists on the bench, Marshall mustered all of his managerial skills to achieve consensus, and his opinion for the Court reflected the concessions and agreements that he engineered to achieve near unanimity in a decision that favored federal power without establishing a definitive endorsement of it. Johnson shows that the outcome of this case was a key moment in the economic history of the nation, heralding the expansion of entrepreneurship and technology while justifying federal primacy in the regulation of commerce. Concise and ideally suited for the classroom, his study not only provides new insight into this landmark case but also attests to its significance in the working of the early Court.
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Examines an important and complex period in the history of the laws and customs devised by merchants to regulate their relations with each other, and the changes in the law merchant and in negotiable instruments in colonial New York during the years 1664 to 1730 in the context of New York's commercial place in the British Empire. "Economic influences and legal theory combined to form the New York law of negotiable instruments during the colonial period. That the legal theory was an amalgam of Dutch civil law and elementary English common law serves to complicate the situation. Furthermore, the unsettled nature of the judicial system during the seventeenth century made consistent legal development fortuitous at best, and haphazard at its worst. This fluid state of economic and legal development is as fascinating in its complexity as it is baffling in its inconsistency." Introduction, 3. "This brief study of the law of merchant and bills of exchange has as its background a fascinating era of legal history. Changing legal institutions and patterns of trade were typical of these early years. For the student of history, as well as the legal scholar, these developments are of great significance for they are the basis for the future growth of the law and the commercial supremacy of the province of New York." (Preface, vii.) Herbert A. Johnson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law. He is the author of numerous books including History of Criminal Justice, Fourth Edition (2010).
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chaplain lawyer History and law educator
Johnson, Herbert Alan was born on January 10, 1934 in Jersey City. Son of Harry Oliver and Magdalena Gertrude (Diemer) Johnson.
AB, Columbia University, 1955; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy (Schiff fellow), Columbia University, 1965; Bachelor of Laws, New York Law School, 1960; postgraduate, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, 1981-1984.
Junior clerk, First National City Bank of New York, New York City, 1955;
administrative assistant, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City, 1957-1960;
practiced in, New York City, 1960-1967;
research assistant, Papers of John Jay, Columbia University, 1961-1963;
associate seminary on history of legal political thought, Papers of John Jay, Columbia University, 1966-1977;
associate seminary on early American history, Papers of John Jay, Columbia University, 1967-1977;
lecturer, Hunter College City Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, 1964-1965;
assistant professor of history, Hunter College City Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, 1965-1967;
associate editor, Papers of John Marshall, Institute Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1967-1970;
co-editor, Papers of John Marshall, Institute Early American History and Culture, 1970-1971;
editor, Papers of John Marshall, Institute Early American History and Culture, 1971-1977;
professor of law and history, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1977-1990;
Ernest F. Hollings professor constitutional law, University of Southern California, Columbia, since 1991. Lecturer College William and Mary, Williamsburg, 1967-1977. Bostick visiting research professor Southern studies program University of Southern California, 1976, 77.
Member committee research, publications Heritage '76 Committee American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1972-1973. Member board adjustments, appeals, Williamsburg, 1970-1977. Trustee Fund for Preservation of John Marshall House, 1972-1974, Fund Cooperative Editl.
Research.Am. Antiquarian Society, 1972-1976. Visiting professor faculty law U. Birmingham, England, 1998.
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Chaplain associate Baptist Medical Center, Columbia, since 1983, hospice legal Superior vena cava syndrome.vol., since 1986. Member ethics committee South Carolina. Episcopal Home, Still Hopes, since 1989.
First lieutenant United States Air Force, 1955-1957. Colonel Reserve retired. Member American History Association (Littleton-Griswold committee 1976-1981, member interim committee Bicentennial era 1976-1977), Selden Society (state correspondent for South Carolina. since 1988), Stair Society, Osgoode Society, Air Force Association, American Law Institute, Association American Law Schools (chairman legal history section 1979), American Society Legal History(president 1974-1975, delegate American Council Learned Socs.
1977-1980, board directors since 1999), U. South Caroliniana Society, Reserve Officers Association, College of Chaplains, National Eagle Scout Association.
Married Barbara Arlene (Balcerak), September 24, 1955 (deceased November 1980). Children: Amanda Blair, Vanessa Paige. Married Jane (McCue), June 4, 1983.