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 |
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.