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Origins of the Dred Scott case : Jacksonian jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, Austin, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2006]
Series:Studies in the legal history of the South.
Subjects:
Constitutional history > United States > Sources.
United States. > Supreme Court > History > Sources.
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States > History > Sources.
Scott, Dred, > 1809-1858 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Sanford, John F. A., > 1806 or 1807-1857 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.