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The Waite court : justices, rulings, and legacy / Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stephenson, D. Grier.
- Series:
- ABC-CLIO Supreme Court handbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Waite, Morrison R. (Morrison Remick), 1816-1888.
- Waite, Morrison R.
- United States. Supreme Court--History--19th century.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2003]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Justices, Rulings, and Legacy 1
- 1 The Waite Court and the Period 3
- Legacy of the Chase Court 4
- The Waite Court: A Collective Portrait 10
- Assembling the Waite Court 16
- A Changing America 33
- Expanding Jurisdiction, Exploding Docket 35
- The Business of the Waite Court 38
- The Waite Court at Work 47
- 2 The Justices 55
- The Buchanan Appointment 57
- The Lincoln Appointments 63
- The Grant Appointments 88
- The Hayes Appointments 110
- The Garfield Appointment 121
- The Arthur Appointments 127
- The Cleveland Appointment 138
- 3 Major Decisions 145
- Prelude: The Reconstruction Amendments and The Slaughterhouse Cases 145
- Civil Rights 153
- The Bill of Rights 169
- Due Process of Law and the State Police Power 188
- The Commerce Clause 200
- 4 Legacy and Impact 221
- Part Classical, Part Modern: The Waite Bench as a Transition Court 223
- The Justices and the Electoral Commission of 1877 228
- Waite as Court Leader 236
- The Waite Court at the Bar of History 244.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1576078299
- 1576078302
- OCLC:
- 53045208
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