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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brigance, William Norwood
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Edition:Reprint 2016.
Subjects:
Black, Jeremiah S. > (Jeremiah Sullivan), > 1810-1883.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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