John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court : circuit riding in the old Southwest / Steven P. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Steven P., 1964-

Contributor:

McKinley, John, 1780-1852.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judges--United States--Biography.

Judges.

Circuit courts--Southwest, Old--History--19th century.

Circuit courts.

Politicians--Alabama--Biography.

Politicians.

United States. Supreme Court--Biography.

United States.

McKinley, John, 1780-1852.

McKinley, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama. Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculat

Contents:

The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley

Logans, law, and political futility

Alabama fever and Georgia faction

The politics of political change

Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington

The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court

The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842

Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852

The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.

Notes:

"Appendix: Justice John McKinley's Supreme Court Opinions and Dissents."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8626-2

OCLC:

819635044