John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court : circuit riding in the old Southwest / / Steven P. Brown.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Brown, Steven Preston.
• TeilnehmendeR: McKinley, John, 1780-1852.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 313 p. :; ill., maps, plan, ports.
• Notes: "Appendix: Justice John McKinley's Supreme Court Opinions and Dissents."

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.