1. The first court and the circuits
2. State sovereignty and neutrality
3. Chief justice Rutledge and Ellsworth
4. Marshall, Jefferson and the judiciary
5. The mandamus case
6. Impeachment and treason
7. Judge Johnson and the embargo
8. Pennsylvania and Georgia against the court
9. Judge story, the war and federal supremacy
10. The judges and the court rooms
11. Corporate charters and bankruptcy
12. The bank of the United States
13. Virginia against the court
14. International law
15. The steamboat monopoly case
16. Kentucky against the court
17. Judiciary reform
18. Constitutional law and Daniel Webster
19. The Cherokee cases and president Jackson
20. The last years of chief justice Marshall
21. Chief justice Taney and Whig pessimism
22. Corporations and slavery
23. Federal powers, Tyler and the Girard will case
24. State powers, commerce and boundaries
25. Slavery and state defiance
26. The Dred Scott case
27. The booth case and congressional attacks
28. Civil war and chief justice chase
29. The Milligan case
30. Reconstruction
31. The legal tender cases
32. The slaughterhouse cases and the death of chase
33. Chief justice wait and the fourteenth amendment
34. The civil rights acts
35. Increase of nationalism
36. Expansion of judicial powers
37. Chief justices fuller and white
38. Commerce and police power