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Origins of the Dred Scott case : Jacksonian jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 / Austin Allen.

By: Series: Studies in the legal history of the SouthPublication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.Description: x, 274 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780820326535 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0820326534 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780820328423 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0820328421 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.7308/7 22
LOC classification:
  • KF4545.S5 A948 2006
Online resources:
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 -- 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 imperatives of federal citizenship -- 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.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks KF4545 .S5 A948 2006 1 Available 33039000987411

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-266) and index.

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 -- 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 imperatives of federal citizenship -- 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.

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