Peter charles hoffers rutgers vs waddington alexander hamilton the end of the war for independence and the origins of judicial review recounts and thoroughly examines this important but largely forgotten episode of confederation era history and considers its importance as a political as well as a legal event. Rutgers v waddington a case about a brewery is best remembered by scholars as one of the early milestones in developing the american doctrine of judicial review but as peter hoffer explains in this deftly argued book the case raises a larger array of significant questions about the nature of american law politics and constitutionalism in the immediate aftermath of the revolution everything from the authority of the law of nations to the practical problem of reintegrating the . Rutgers v waddington alexander hamilton the end of the war for independence and the origins of judicial review by peter charles hoffer lawrence ks university press of kansas 2016 pp vii 152 1895. Book info rutgers v waddington book description once the dust of the revolution settled the problem of reconciling the erstwhile warring factions arose and as is often the case in the aftermath of violent revolutions the matter made its way into the legal arena rutgers v waddington was such a case. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more