Taney period, 1836-1864
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2010
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| Colección: | History of the Supreme Court of the United States ;
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b25918308*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The background of the Taney Court
- The Taney appointment-- Personnel of the Taney Court
- The first term and the bridge case
- The realm of finance
- Hard times and contract obligations
- The scope of executive power
- The impact of foreign affairs
- Politics and personnel
- The judges and the circuits
- The expanding work load
- The clerk and the reporter
- Federal courts and the common law
- Fringes of the codification movement
- The control of commerce
- The continuing struggle over commerce
- The developing pattern of the commerce power
- Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction
- The rights of corporations
- Patent rights and free enterprise
- Political questions and judicial power
- Sectionalism and slavery
- Soil for slavery
- The Dred Scott case
- Aftermath of the Scott case
- The Booth cases and northern nullification
- Fugitives from justice
- The widening breach
- The court on the eve of the war
- Property in land
- The wealth of El Dorado
- Lincoln's appointments to the court
- The war and the federal judges
- The blockade and the laws of war
- Wartime curtailment of civil rights
- Other problems from the war
- The end of the Taney regime.
