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Origins of the Dred Scott case

by Allen, Austin,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Studies in the legal history of the South Published by : University of Georgia Press, (Athens, Ga. :) Physical details: x, 274 p.
Subject(s): 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 -- United States -- History -- Sources. | Constitutional history -- United States -- Sources. | Electronic books.
Year: 2006
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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