Document Type
Article
Publication Title
SMU Law Review
Abstract
In this article, I will trace first how Pennsylvania turned to the common law. Then, I will discuss how the colony used law to empower judges. Finally, I will examine how judges used their power to govern the king's subjects and, in effect, to create a judicial oligarchy, with the provincial assembly serving as the only check on oligarchical power.
First Page
3
Volume
59
Publication Date
2006
Recommended Citation
Wiiliam E. Nelson,
Government by Judiciary: The Growth of Judicial Power in Colonial Pennsylvania,
59
SMU Law Review
3
(2006).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/855
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