Origins of the Dred Scott case : Jacksonian jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 / / Austin Allen.
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| Superior document: | Studies in the legal history of the South |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the legal history of the South.
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| Physical Description: | x, 274 p. |
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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.