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John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court : circuit riding in the old Southwest /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Steven Preston
Other Authors: McKinley, John, 1780-1852
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2012]
Subjects:
McKinley, John, > 1780-1852.
United States. > Supreme Court > Biography.
Politicians > Alabama > Biography.
Circuit courts > Southwest, Old > History > 19th century.
Judges > United States > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley
  • Logans, law, and political futility
  • Alabama fever and Georgia faction
  • The politics of political change
  • Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington
  • The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court
  • The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842
  • Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852
  • The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.