Origins of the Dred Scott case : Jacksonian jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 / Austin Allen.
| Author/creator | Allen, Austin, 1970- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©2006. |
| Description | x, 274 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in the legal history of the South Studies in the legal history of the South. ^A388391 |
| 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 -- 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 -- 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. 229-266) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005024354 |
| ISBN | 0820326534 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0820328421 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780820326535 |
| ISBN | 9780820328423 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | KF4545.S5 A948 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |