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The anti-rent era in New York law and politics, 1839-1865 / Charles W. McCurdy.
LIBRA KFN5145 .M33 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCurdy, Charles W., 1948-
- Series:
- Studies in legal history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landlord and tenant--New York (State)--History.
- Landlord and tenant.
- Rent strikes--New York (State)--History.
- Rent strikes.
- Law--Political aspects.
- Law.
- History.
- New York (State).
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 408 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- 1 Governor Seward and the Manor of Rensselaerwyck 1
- A Whig in the State House 4
- The Patroon's Domain 10
- The Helderberg War 18
- Land Law and the Law of the Land 22
- 2 Whig Reconnaissance 32
- Public Purposes in Party Dialogue 34
- The Wheaton Bill 39
- Land Reform and Whig Constitutionalism 42
- The Making of the Manor Commission 51
- 3 The Politics of Evasion 56
- Portents of Failure 58
- The Debacle in Albany 62
- Anti-Rent Revived 68
- The Compromise of 1841 74
- 4 The Trouble with Democrats 78
- Whig "Fallacies"
- Democratic Solutions 80
- Bargain Theory in the Jacksonian Persuasion 84
- Debtors and Tenants before the Legislature 87
- Anti-Rent Transformed 95
- 5 Depression-Era Constitutionalism 104
- Tightening the Right-Remedy Distinction 107
- Due Process and the Eminent Domain Power 110
- Judicial Review in a Democracy 116
- The Logic of Constitutional Reform 121
- 6 Signs of War 128
- Petitions and Partisanship 131
- Land Reform and Democratic Constitutionalism 135
- Texas and the Reorientation of Parties 141
- The Luxuriation of Anti-Rent 148
- 7 Resistance and Reform 156
- The Election of 1844 159
- Bloodshed 163
- Mixed Reactions 167
- Stalemate 174
- 8 Political Crossroads 182
- The Washington-Albany Connection 184
- Dilemmas for the Democracy 189
- Land Reform and Constitutional Reform 194
- Partisan Mediators of Anti-Rent Decisions 200
- 9 A Cacophony of Voices 205
- The "New Constitution" 207
- Schism 212
- The Rout of the "Indians" 216
- Whig Recriminations 223
- The No-Compromise Persuasion 228
- 10 Democratic Futility 234
- Land Reform at the Shrine of Party 237
- Political Fratricide 246
- The Anti-Rent Measures 249
- A Sinking Ship 255
- 11 Whig Resolution 260
- Anti-Rent and the Balance of Power 263
- A Troublesome Constituency 270
- Antislavery and Anti-Rent 276
- Dead Ends 281
- 12 Enmeshed in Law 287
- Lawyers in Charge 289
- The Failed Compromise of 1850 295
- Division and Decline 301
- The Lease in Fee Besieged 306
- Perpetual Rent 308
- 13 The End of an Era 316
- The Anti-Rent Act of 1860 317
- Defeat 325
- Aftermath 329.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807825905
- OCLC:
- 43919602
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