Origins of the Dred Scott case
Subtitle: Jacksonian jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857
By: Austin Allen.
Series: Studies in the legal history of the South
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780820326535; 9780820328423
Subjects: Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc; Sanford, John F. A., 1806 or 7-1857 -- Trials, litigation, etc; United States. Supreme Court -- History -- Sources; Constitutional history -- United States -- Sources; Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.; Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Realizing popular sovereignty : partisan sentiment and constitutional constraint in Jacksonian jurisprudence; title: Imposing self-rule : professionalism, commerce, social order, and the sources of Taney court jurisprudence; title: Evidence of law : popular sovereignty and judicial authority in Swift v. Tyson; title: Moderating Taney : concurrent sovereignty and answering the slavery question, 1842-1852; title: The limits of judicial partisanship : corporate law and the emergence of southern factionalism; title: The sources of southern factionalism : corporations, free blacks, and imperatives of federal citizenship; title: The failure of evasion : Dred Scott v. Emerson, Strader v. Graham, Swift v. Tyson, and Dred Scott v. Sandford; title: The political economy of blackness : citizenship, corporations, and the judicial uses of racism in Dred Scott; title: Looking westward : concurrent sovereignty and the answer to the territorial question.