Origins of the Dred Scott case Jacksonian jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 /
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| Language: | English |
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Athens, Ga. :
University of Georgia Press,
c2006.
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| Series: | Studies in the legal history of the South
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10375912 |
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.