Wheaton, Henry:

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REPORTS OF CASES ARGUED AND ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Henry Wheaton's REPORTS... is the third series of legal reports of the United States Supreme Court, the first being those of Alexander Dallas (through 1800), and the second those of William Cranch (1800-15). Wheaton picks up where Cranch left off, reporting the cases that came before the Marshall Court from 1816 to 1827, including some of its most famous and consequential decisions. The present set is composed entirely of first editions.Considered one of the greatest American legal writers, Wheaton was widely praised at the time and has been since for his reports, which became "the model for judicial reporting in this country," according to the editors of LANDMARKS IN LEGAL PUBLISHING. He was the first reporter to be officially appointed to the task, and legal luminaries such as Joseph Story and Daniel Webster applauded his efforts. In addition to his legal writings, Wheaton was a very early member of the American Antiquarian Society, the New York State Assembly, and also served as United States Minister to Denmark and to Prussia.This set contains the first reports of such landmark cases as McCulloch v. Maryland (scope of Congress's legislative powers), Gibbons v. Ogden (federal government's power over interstate commerce), and Cohens v. Virginia (Supreme Court's power to review state court rulings), as well as the first major struggles over the Bank of the United States. In these cases, Justice M

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