Resumen de The Words That Made Original Jurisdiction

James E. Pfander

• Akhil Amar’s The Words That Made Us2 invites us to consider the practice of constitutional discourse as a transatlantic conversation that began well before, and continued long after, shots were fired at Bunker Hill. This Essay honors Amar’s conversational model by using it to evaluate evolving conceptions of the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction. Putting the Chief Justice Marshall of Marbury (1803) in conversation with the Marshall of Cohens (1821) and Osborn (1824), this Essay proposes to trace the development and current resting point of the Court’s view of its original jurisdiction.