This HeinOnline database brings together materials prepared by various congresses relating to the purpose, formation, organization, and restructuring of Article III Courts. Featuring William H. Manz’s Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010, the database focuses on the development and growth of the judiciary, and is a source of original material of congressional fact-finding and decision-making.
Decades of legislative intent, testimony, and pre-enactment history is provided in one centralized resource and supplemented with Federal Judicial Center publications, periodicals, scholarly articles, Title 28 (Judicial Administration) of the Code of Federal Regulations, and more.