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The politics of judicial interpretation : the federal courts, Department of Justice, and civil rights, 1866-1876 / Robert J. Kaczorowski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaczorowski, Robert J.
- Series:
- Reconstructing America (Series) ; no. 9.
- Reconstructing America (Series), 1523-4606 ; no. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Judicial review--United States--History--19th century.
- Judicial review.
- Political questions and judicial power--United States--History--19th century.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st Fordham University Press ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- GShould be required reading . . . for all historians, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, and government officials who in one way or another are responsible for understanding and interpreting our civil rights past.GGHarold M. Hyman, Journal of Southern History.
- Contents:
- Judicial interpretations of national civil rights enforcement authority, 1866-1873
- The Freedmen's Bureau and civil rights enforcement, 1866-1868
- The politics of civil rights enforcement in the federal courts, 1866-1873
- The Department of Justice and civil rights enforcement, 1870-1871
- The Department of Justice and the retreat from civil rights enforcement, 1872-1873
- The judicial administration of civil rights enforcement, 1870-1872
- The Supreme Court as legislature : the judicial retreat from civil rights enforcement
- The judicial curtailment of civil rights enforcement, 1874-1875
- The reinstitution of decentralized constitutionalism : the Supreme Court and civil rights, 1876.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4836-4
- OCLC:
- 794702335
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