Taney period 1836-1864
By: by Carl B. Swisher.
Contributors: United States. Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.
Series: History of the Supreme Court of the United States -- v. 5
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1041
ISBN-13: 9780521519793
Subjects: United States. -- Supreme Court -- History. -- 19th century
Notes: At head of series title: The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 976-1001) and index.
Table of contents: title: The background of the Taney Court; title: The Taney appointment; title: Personnel of the Taney Court; title: The first term and the bridge case; title: The realm of finance; title: Hard times and contract obligations; title: The scope of executive power; title: The impact of foreign affairs; title: Politics and personnel; title: The judges and the circuits; title: The expanding work load; title: The clerk and the reporter; title: Federal courts and the common law; title: Fringes of the codification movement; title: The control of commerce; title: The continuing struggle over commerce; title: The developing pattern of the commerce power; title: Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; title: The rights of corporations; title: Patent rights and free enterprise; title: Political questions and judicial power; title: Sectionalism and slavery; title: Soil for slavery; title: The Dred Scott case; title: Aftermath of the Scott case; title: The Booth cases and northern nullification; title: Fugitives from justice; title: The widening breach; title: The court on the eve of the war; title: Property in land; title: The wealth of El Dorado; title: Lincoln's appointments to the court; title: The war and the federal judges; title: The blockade and the laws of war; title: Wartime curtailment of civil rights; title: Other problems from the war; title: The end of the Taney regime.