The history of ideas : from Aristotle's theory of a mixed constitution to John Adams's modifications of Montesquieu
Article III of the Constitution of the United States
Virginia : constitutionalizing judicial independence prior to the U.S. Constitution
Massachusetts : a "safety-valve" theory of judicial independence
New Hampshire : judicial review in the Rockingham County inferior court
Maryland : Chancellor Theodorick Bland and salaries that "ought to be secured"
Connecticut : disestablishment and judicial independence
Rhode Island : last bastion of legislative supremacy
North Carolina : Governor Thomas Burke and the origins of judicial review
South Carolina : judicial review without an independent judiciary
New Jersey : the first state court precedent for judicial review
New York : persistent threats to judicial independence
Pennsylvania : (almost) adopting the federal model
Delaware : a high court of errors and appeals
Georgia : ineffective and dependent judges
Conclusion.