An adequate history of the Supreme Court has yet to be written. H. L. Carson, _The History of the Supreme Court of the United States, with biographies of all the chief and associate justices_ (2 vols., 1902-04), and H. Flanders, _The Lives and Times of the Chief-Justices of the Supreme Court_ (2 vols., 1855-58), are serviceable works. The best selection of cases on constitutional law is that by J. B. Thayer, _Cases in Constitutional Law_ (2 vols., 1894-95). Some of the more important decisions may be found abridged in Allen Johnson's _Readings in American Constitutional History_ (1912). W. W. Willoughby, _The Supreme Court: its History and Influence in our Constitutional System_ (1890), and _The American Constitutional System_ (1904), are interesting volumes by an authority on constitutional law. J. P. Kennedy, _Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt_ (2 vols., 1850); G. J. McRee, _Life and Correspondence of James Iredell_ (2 vols., 1857-58); W. W. Story, _Life and Letters of Joseph Story_ (2 vols., 1851); and G. T. Curtis, _Life of Daniel Webster_ (2 vols., 1870), contribute to an understanding of the relation of the federal bench and bar. Especially valuable is Charles Warren's _History of the American Bar, Colonial and Federal, to 1860_ (1911). The progress of American law is reviewed in _Two Centuries' Growth of American Law, 1701-1901_, by members of the faculty of the Yale Law School. INDEX Adams, Abigail, 120, 121. Adams, John, Minister to England, 7; demands Western posts, 17; on the adoption of the Constitution, 41; elected Vice-President, 48; on the President's address, 50; re-elected Vice-President, 67; candidate for the Presidency, 92; elected President, 93; his attitude toward France, 96; appoints commissioners, 96-97; urges preparations for war, 98; sends X Y Z letters to Congress, 98; appoints officers of army, 101-02; at odds with Hamilton faction, 103; resumes relations with France, 103-04; his title to fame, 104; pardons Fries, 113; candidate for Presidency (1800), 116; and federal judiciary, 121-22; presidential elector (1820), 280; on European entanglements, 289-90; offers Chief Justiceship to Jay, 331.