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Equal justice under law : constitutional development, 1835-1875 / by Harold M. Hyman and William M. Wiecek.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks KF 4541 .H89 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hyman, Harold M. (Harold Melvin), 1924-2023.
- Series:
- New American nation series
- The New American Nation series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Equality before the law--United States--History--19th century.
- Equality before the law.
- Law--United States--History--19th century.
- Law.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 571 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, ©1982.
- Contents:
- The democratic Constitution: sovereignty, Union, slavery
- The public law
- The Taney Court
- The nemesis of the Constitution: slavery in the courts
- Free Soil: the Constitution and the "Empire for liberty," 1845-1852
- The crisis of the Union, 1853-1859
- Secession: the Union destroyed
- Reconstruction: the Union preserved
- The dominion of well-administered law
- A reconstruction of law and judicial review, 1863-1867
- The Fourteenth Amendment in the light of the Thirteenth: not cramped by the old technicalities
- Anxious passages: fitting end to all controversies?
- The 1870s and 1880s: eras, not decades, removed from the 1860s
- Appendix: The Constitution of the United States.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-554) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hyman, Harold Melvin, 1924- Equal justice under law.
- ISBN:
- 006014937X
- 9780060149376
- OCLC:
- 7653720
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