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Abstract
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is the oldest state appellate court in the country dating itself back to 1684 when William Penn introduced the Provincial Court as a court to hear appeals from the justices of the peace of the three counties that comprised Pennsylvania. The early court was not called a supreme court until an act 1712 that was disallowed by the Privy Council in England. It was not until 1722 that the legislation enacting a Supreme Court was overlooked by the Privy Council for several years that finally became the act establishing the court for the remaining period of colonial rule. Colonial and then Commonwealth Governors appointed the justices down to 1850, when a constitutional amendment made justices/judges elective positions in 1851. In recognition of these justices, the following bibliography of their writings has been assembled from various print and electronic records as listed below.
Repository Citation
Fishman, J., Hagen, L., & Post, E. (2023). Bibliography of the Writings of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Unbound: A Review of Legal History and Rare Books, 14 (1-2). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/law-faculty-scholarship/165