Constitutional Inquisitors

In the United States, federal prosecutors enjoy a degree of power that's unmatched elsewhere in the world: unlike their counterparts in other countries, federal prosecutors are free to investigate and prosecute (or decline to prosecute) criminal cases -- without significant oversight. Our contemporary concerns about federal prosecutors -- that they have too much power and too much discretion over how they use it -- have a history that goes back to the founding of the United States. This will be the first book to examine the development of the federal law enforcement apparatus in the earliest part of the early republic"--