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Rethinking the judicial settlement of Reconstruction /
"Demolishing the conventional wisdom that the Supreme Court's doctrine of state action killed Reconstruction, Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights and redefines the legal transition to Jim Crow"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Demolishing the conventional wisdom that the Supreme Court's doctrine of state action killed Reconstruction, Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights and redefines the legal transition to Jim Crow"-- "American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional wisdom and puts a constructive alternative in its place. Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights that provided expansive possibilities for protecting blacks' physical safety and electoral participation, even as it left public accommodation rights undefended. She shows that the Supreme Court supported a Republican coalition and left open ample room for executive and legislative action. Blacks were abandoned, but by the president and Congress, not the Court. Brandwein unites close legal reading of judicial opinions (some hitherto unknown), sustained historical work, the study of political institutions, and the sociology of knowledge. This book explodes tired old debates and will provoke new ones"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511861093 0511861095 9780511858482 0511858485 9780511781650 0511781652 1107625912 9781107625914 1107219256 9781107219250 1283006138 9781283006132 9786613006134 6613006130 0511860226 9780511860225 0511857616 9780511857614 |