The Politics of Judicial Interpretation : : The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 / / Robert J. Kaczorowski.
This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which federal judges, attorneys, and other law officers defined a new era of civil and political rights in the South and implemented the revolutionary 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction. “...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Reconstructing America
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to the Fordham University Press Edition -- Introduction to the Oceana Publications Edition -- 1 Judicial Interpretations of National Civil Rights Enforcement Authority, 1866–1873 -- 2 The Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights Enforcement, 1866–1868 -- 3 The Politics of Civil Rights Enforcement in the Federal Courts, 1866–1873 -- 4 The Department of Justice and Civil Rights Enforcement, 1870–1871 -- 5 The Department of Justice and the Retreat from Civil Rights Enforcement, 1872–1873 -- 6 The Judicial Administration of Civil Rights Enforcement, 1870–1872 -- 7 The Supreme Court as Legislature: The Judicial Retreat from Civil Rights Enforcement -- 8 The Judicial Curtailment of Civil Rights Enforcement, 1874–1875 -- 9 The Reinstitution of Decentralized Constitutionalism: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights, 1876 -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which federal judges, attorneys, and other law officers defined a new era of civil and political rights in the South and implemented the revolutionary 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction. “Should be required reading . . . for all historians, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, and government officials who in one way or another are responsible for understanding and interpreting our civil rights past.”—Harold M. Hyman, Journal of Southern History “Important, richly researched. . . . the fullest account now available.”—American Journal of Legal History |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780823293179 9783111189604 9783110707298 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780823293179 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Robert J. Kaczorowski. |