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Jeremiah Sullivan Black : a Defender of the Constitution and the Ten Commandments /
The life of the brilliant Pennsylvania lawyer who was Attorney-General and Secretary of Sate under Buchanan and legal gladiator during the tragic era of Reconstruction.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2017]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2016. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations of Works Most Frequently Cited in This Volume
- 1. School and Farming
- 2. The Young Lawyer
- 3. Marriage
- 4. Politics and Religion
- 5. Booms
- 6. Chief Justice
- 7. A Jurist of the Commonwealth
- 8. Warring Political Factions
- 9. Attorney-General
- 10. Protecting the Public Domain
- 11. Rumblings of Disruption
- 12. Buchanan and His Cabinet
- 13. The Spirit of Secession and Abolition
- 14. The Secession of South Carolina
- 15. The Cabinet Crisis
- 16. Secretary of State
- 17. Rejection of the Supreme Court Nomination
- 18. The Nadir of Personal and Political Fortunes
- 19. California Land Cases
- 20. Ex Parte Milligan
- 21. Confederate Prisoners
- 22. Steamrolling the Constitution
- 23. Ex Parte McCardle
- 24. The Impeachment Counsel of Andrew Johnson
- 25. Restricting Reconstruction in the Courts
- 26. Politics
- 27. The General Practice of Law
- 28. A Personal Sketch
- 29. The Controversial Writer
- 30. The Forensic Orator
- 31. In the Public Service of Pennsylvania and Maryland
- 32. The Belknap Impeachment Trial and the Tilden-Hayes Election Dispute
- 33. In the Ripeness of Life
- 34. Closing Days
- Bibliography
- Index