Taney period, 1836-1864 /
Swisher, Carl Brent,1897-1968.
United States.Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2010.
At head of series title: The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.
An earlier version of this book was published by Macmillan in 1974, under title: Taney period, 1836-64.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 976-1001) and index.
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.
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