The Supreme Court of the United States: Its History
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History of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution of the United States Volume 2
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History of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution of the United States Volume 1
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Hampton Lawrence Carson was an American trial lawyer and an authority on constitutional law.
Background
Hampton Lawrence Carson was born on February 21, 1852 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; the eldest child and oldest son of Dr. Joseph Carson and his second wife, Mary (Hollingsworth) Carson. He was a descendant of Joseph Carson, who arrived in Philadelphia about 1760, and of Henry Hollingsworth of County Armagh, Ireland, a friend of William Penn, who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1683.
Education
At the age of fifteen, Hampton matriculated in the college of the University of Pennsylvania, where his father was professor of materia medica and pharmacy in the medical school. He graduated in 1871, entered the law school and was awarded the degrees of LL. B. and M. A. in 1874.
Career
An able and ready speaker, he was much in demand as an orator on historical and patriotic occasions and frequently argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. An ardent supporter of Chief Justice Marshall's interpretation of the Constitution, Carson regarded the United States Government with its system of checks and balances guarded by the federal judiciary as the great guarantee of American freedom. As late as 1921 he wrote The Constitution of the United States, the Breadth of Its Foundations and the Wisdom of Its Division of Governmental Powers Between Three Departments. It reflects the same political philosophy developed earlier in his The Supreme Court of the United States: Its History (1891), and History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of the United States (2 vols. , 1889). He viewed with distrust any encroachments on the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, or disturbance of the delicate balance between the three departments of the federal system. In A Reply in the Form of Two Open Letters Addressed to the Hon. James M. Beck (1925), he made a vigorous attack on the "suggestion that it be open to Congress and the President by joint Resolution to request the Supreme Court to give advisory opinions as to whether a proposed law is within the competence of the government. " Despite his very busy professional life as a lawyer and citizen, Carson was also a distinguished collector and historian. His first venture as a collector was in the field of Americana, his collection at the time of its sale in 1903 being pronounced the finest in private hands in America. After that he turned to the history of the English common law and acquired a collection, which, both in quantity and quality, is equal only to those of the British Museum and the Harvard Law Library. He knew his collections intimately, and always insisted on their arrangement in chronological sequence, to emphasize, as he said, the orderly development of the law and the continuity of history. At the same time, he stressed the importance of the individual, and the persistent vitality of great books. Glanvil, Bracton, Littleton, and Blackstone he called the "mountain peaks" in the evolution of English law. First published in Philadelphia eight years before the Declaration of Independence, Blackstone's Commentaries became a special object of his interest, and his collection, which he bequeathed to the Free Library of Philadelphia, has twenty-one English and sixteen American editions. The titles of Carson's writings reveal his interests and ideas. In addition to the works mentioned above, they include The Law of Criminal Conspiracies and Agreements as Found in the American Cases (1887), which was for a decade the standard work on the subject; A History of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in two volumes, completed before his death but not published till 1940; and a score or more of pamphlets and addresses upon legal and other subjects. Among the last named the following titles are suggestive: "The Principles of British Liberty, " "Pedigrees in the Ownership of Law Books, " "Shakespeare as a Lawyer, " "The Life and Works of Benjamin West, " "The Relation of History and Law as Displayed in Public Records, " and "Some Thoughts with Regard to the Arrangement of Books. "
Admitted to the bar, Carson rose rapidly in the profession, both as a trial lawyer and an authority on constitutional law. He was professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania from 1894 to 1901, served with distinction as attorney-general of the state, 1903-07, was chancellor of the Law Association of Philadelphia in 1912-14; president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association in 1913; and president of the American Bar Association, 1919-21. He served for some years as trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, was a member of the Board of City Trusts, vice-president and counselor of the American Philosophical Society, and president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Connections
On April 14, 1880, Carson married Anna Lea Baker, who with two sons and two daughters survived him.