The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics, 1835–1864 / Foster H. Sherwood, Charles Grove Haines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haines, Charles Grove, Author.

Sherwood, Foster H., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I. A New Era in Constitutional Interpretation

II. The Decision of Cases Left Over from the Marshall Period

III. The Interpretation of the Status and Rights of Corporations

IV. The Supreme Court and the Issue of Slavery before 1856

V. The Interpretation of the Commerce Clause: The Evolution of the Court's Interpretation of the Commerce Clause under Chief Justice Taney's Leadership

VI. The Supreme Court and the Issue of State versus Federal Sovereignty

VII. The Development by the Supreme Court of the Technique and Procedure for the Settlement of Boundary Disputes between States

VIII. The Theory of the Separation of Powers and the Supremacy of the Judiciary

IX. The Interpretation of the Contract Clause and the Protection of Vested Rights under Chief Justice Taney's Leadership

X. The Dred Scott Case

XI. Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court during the Civil War

XII. Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Interpretation during the Civil War

XIII. Contributions to and Changes in American Constitutional Law by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Taney

Table of Cases

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520350366

0520350367

OCLC:

1198929136