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Dred Scott and the dangers of a political court /
The Dred Scott decision of 1857 is widely (and correctly) regarded as the very worst in the long history of the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision held that no African American could ever be a U.S. citizen and declared that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional and void. The decision th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st paperback ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A slave's life
- False promise of freedom : Scott's state court trials
- "A dark and fell spirit" : the Missouri Supreme Court reverses
- New trial and defeat in St. Louis federal court
- At the summit : argument and reargument before the U.S. Supreme Court
- The president-elect secretly intervenes
- "The South is doomed" : Chief Justice Roger Taney
- Taney's opinion of the court : an overview
- Can a black man be a true American? : Taney on Negro citizenship
- "Upon these considerations" : Taney strikes down the Missouri compromise
- The road not taken : Taney on choice of law and res judicata
- The majority concurs (after a fashion)
- Two ringing dissents
- Reaction and the way to Civil War
- The use and misuse of history
- The aspirationalist critique : "indifference to injustice"
- The originalist critique : "first cousin to Roe"
- The traditional "judicial restraint" critique
- Dred Scott and the dangers of a political court.