Allen, Austin, 1970-

Origins of the Dred Scott case Jacksonian jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 / [electronic resource] : Austin Allen. - Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006. - x, 274 p. - Studies in the legal history of the South . - Studies in the legal history of the South. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and index.

Realizing popular sovereignty : partisan sentiment and constitutional constraint in Jacksonian jurisprudence -- Imposing self-rule : professionalism, commerce, social order, and the sources of Taney court jurisprudence -- Evidence of law : popular sovereignty and judicial authority in Swift v. Tyson -- Toward Dred Scott : slavery, corporations, and popular sovereignty in the web of law -- Moderating Taney : concurrent sovereignty and answering the slavery question, 1842-1852 -- The limits of judicial partisanship : corporate law and the emergence of southern factionalism -- The sources of southern factionalism : corporations, free blacks, and the imperatives of federal citizenship -- Inescapable opportunity : the Supreme Court and the Dred Scott case -- The failure of evasion : Dred Scott v. Emerson, Strader v. Graham, Swift v. Tyson, and Dred Scott v. Sandford -- The political economy of blackness : citizenship, corporations, and the judicial uses of racism in Dred Scott -- Looking westward : concurrent sovereignty and the answer to the territorial question.


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Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Sanford, John F. A., 1806 or 7-1857 --Trials, litigation, etc.


United States. Supreme Court --History--Sources.


Slavery--Law and legislation--History--United States--Sources.
Constitutional history--United States--Sources.


Electronic books.

KF4545.S5 / A948 2006eb

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