John Archibald Campbell, Southern moderate, 1811-1889 / Robert Saunders, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saunders, Robert, Jr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campbell, John Archibald, 1811-1889.

Campbell, John Archibald.

Judges--United States--Biography.

Judges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 285 p. ) ill., ports. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first full biography of the southern U.S.Supreme Court justice who championed both the U.S.Constitution and states' rights The life of John Archibald Campbell reflects nearly every major development of 19th-century American history.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1. Ancestry and Antecedents

2. Professional Career, 1830-1842

3. Submerged Lands and States' Rights

4. Campbell and the Peculiar Institution

5. The Crisis at Midcentury

6. States' Rights Triumphant

7. States' Rights Justice, Part 1: Commerce, Contracts, and Quitman

8. States' Rights Justice, Part 2: Dred Scott and Sherman Booth

9. The War Years, Part 1: To Mitigate the Evils upon the Country

10. The War Years, Part 2: That We Should Not Be Utterly Destroyed

11. Reconstruction and Redemption

12. Postwar Palingenesis

13. Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-9154-1

0-585-21164-7

OCLC:

1017971886