Origins of the Dred Scott case Jacksonian jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 / Austin Allen.
| Author/creator | Allen, Austin, 1970- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, |
| Description | x, 274 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in the legal history of the South |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005024354 |
| ISBN | 9780820326535 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0820326534 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780820328423 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0820328421 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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