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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Steven Preston
Otros Autores: McKinley, John, 1780-1852
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley
  • Logans, law, and political futility
  • Alabama fever and Georgia faction
  • The politics of political change
  • Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington
  • The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court
  • The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842
  • Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852
  • The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.