Jeremiah Sullivan Black : A Defender of the Constitution and the Ten Commandments / William Norwood Brigance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brigance, William Norwood, Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 4 illus.

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The life of the brilliant Pennsylvania lawyer who was Attorney-General and Secretary of Sate under Buchanan and legal gladiator during the tragic era of Reconstruction.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations of Works Most Frequently Cited in This Volume

1. School and Farming

2. The Young Lawyer

3. Marriage

4. Politics and Religion

5. Booms

6. Chief Justice

7. A Jurist of the Commonwealth

8. Warring Political Factions

9. Attorney-General

10. Protecting the Public Domain

11. Rumblings of Disruption

12. Buchanan and His Cabinet

13. The Spirit of Secession and Abolition

14. The Secession of South Carolina

15. The Cabinet Crisis

16. Secretary of State

17. Rejection of the Supreme Court Nomination

18. The Nadir of Personal and Political Fortunes

19. California Land Cases

20. Ex Parte Milligan

21. Confederate Prisoners

22. Steamrolling the Constitution

23. Ex Parte McCardle

24. The Impeachment Counsel of Andrew Johnson

25. Restricting Reconstruction in the Courts

26. Politics

27. The General Practice of Law

28. A Personal Sketch

29. The Controversial Writer

30. The Forensic Orator

31. In the Public Service of Pennsylvania and Maryland

32. The Belknap Impeachment Trial and the Tilden-Hayes Election Dispute

33. In the Ripeness of Life

34. Closing Days

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512814774

1512814776

OCLC:

979747909