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Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story : statesman of the Old Republic /

The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican va...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newmyer, R. Kent (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1985]
Series:Studies in legal history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Republication education
  • Law over politics
  • Mr. Justice Story: scholar at war
  • Judge-made policy and economic progress
  • New England conservative as constitutional nationalist
  • The new court and the "last of the old race of judges"
  • Harvard Law School and the salvation of the republic
  • Spreading the word of law: codifier and publicist
  • Commerce, commercial law, and national union
  • The crisis of conservative constitutionalism
  • Statesman of the Old Republic.