Distinct Judicial Power: The Origins of an Independent Judiciary, 1606-1787A Distinct Judicial Power: The Origins of an Independent Judiciary, 1606 1787, by Scott Douglas Gerber, provides the first comprehensive critical analysis of the origins of judicial independence in the United States. Part I examines the political theory of an independent judiciary. Gerber begins chapter 1 by tracing the intellectual origins of a distinct judicial power from Aristotle's theory of a mixed constitution to John Adams's modifications of