Jeremiah Sullivan Black : A Defender of the Constitution and the Ten Commandments / William Norwood Brigance.
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- Author/Creator:
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- 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:
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- 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
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- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)
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- OCLC:
- 979747909
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