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Origins of the Dred Scott Case : Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allen, Austin, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Realizing popular sovereignty : partisan sentiment and constitutional constraint in Jacksonian jurisprudence
  • Imposing self-rule : professionalism, commerce, social order, and the sources of Taney court jurisprudence
  • Evidence of law : popular sovereignty and judicial authority in Swift v. Tyson
  • Toward Dred Scott : slavery, corporations, and popular sovereignty in the web of law
  • Moderating Taney : concurrent sovereignty and answering the slavery question, 1842-1852
  • The limits of judicial partisanship : corporate law and the emergence of southern factionalism
  • The sources of southern factionalism : corporations, free blacks, and the imperatives of federal citizenship
  • Inescapable opportunity : the Supreme Court and the Dred Scott case
  • The failure of evasion : Dred Scott v. Emerson, Strader v. Graham, Swift v. Tyson, and Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • The political economy of blackness : citizenship, corporations, and the judicial uses of racism in Dred Scott
  • Looking westward : concurrent sovereignty and the answer to the territorial question.