John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court : Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest /

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John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama...

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Main Author: Brown, Steven Preston
Other Authors: McKinley, John, 1780-1852
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
McKinley, John, > 1780-1852.
United States. > Supreme Court.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court > Biographies.
United States. > Supreme Court > Biography.
Politicians.
Judges.
Circuit courts.
LAW > Government > Federal.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Lawyers & Judges.
Hommes politiques > Alabama > Biographies.
Cours de circuit > États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Juges > États-Unis > Biographies.
Politicians > Alabama > Biography.
Circuit courts > Southwest, Old > History > 19th century.
Judges > United States > Biography.
United States > Old Southwest.
United States.
Alabama.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley
  • Logans, law, and political futility
  • Alabama fever and Georgia faction
  • The politics of political change
  • Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington
  • The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court
  • The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842
  • Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852
  • The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.

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