The politics of judicial interpretation
Subtitle: the federal courts, Department of Justice, and civil rights, 1866-1876
By: Robert J. Kaczorowski.
Series: Reconstructing America Series,; no. 9; Reconstructing America (Series) ;; no. 9.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.; Judicial review -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Political questions and judicial power -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Judicial interpretations of national civil rights enforcement authority, 1866-1873; title: The Freedmen's Bureau and civil rights enforcement, 1866-1868; title: The politics of civil rights enforcement in the federal courts, 1866-1873; title: The Department of Justice and civil rights enforcement, 1870-1871; title: The Department of Justice and the retreat from civil rights enforcement, 1872-1873; title: The judicial administration of civil rights enforcement, 1870-1872; title: The Supreme Court as legislature : the judicial retreat from civil rights enforcement; title: The judicial curtailment of civil rights enforcement, 1874-1875; title: The reinstitution of decentralized constitutionalism : the Supreme Court and civil rights, 1876.