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John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court : circuit riding in the old Southwest /
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama. Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculat. |
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| Notas: | "Appendix: Justice John McKinley's Supreme Court Opinions and Dissents." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps, plan, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817386269 0817386262 0817317716 9780817317713 |