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Author Swisher, Carl Brent, 1897-1968.

Title The Taney period, 1836-64.

Publication Info. New York : Macmillan, [1974]

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 Moore Stacks  KF8742.A45 H55 vol. 5  v.5, 1974    Available  ---
Description xvii, 1041 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series History of the Supreme Court of the United States ; v. 5
History of the Supreme Court of the United States ; v. 5.
Note At head of title: The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 976-1001.
Contents The background of the Taney Court -- The Taney appointment -- Personnel of the Taney Court -- The first term and the Bridge Case -- The realm of finance -- Hard times and contract obligations -- The scope of executive power -- The impact of foreign affairs -- Politics and personnel -- The judges and the circuits -- The expanding work load -- The clerk and the reporter -- Federal courts and the common law -- Fringes of the codification movement -- The control of commerce -- The continuing struggle over commerce -- The developing pattern of the commerce power -- Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction -- The rights of corporations -- Patent rights and free enterprise -- Political questions and judicial power -- Sectionalism and slavery -- Soil for slavery -- The Dred Scott case -- Aftermath of the Scott Case -- The Booth Cases and Northern nullification -- Fugitives from justice -- The widening breach -- The Court on the eve of the war -- Property in land -- The wealth of El Dorado -- Lincoln's appointments to the Court -- The war and the federal judges -- The blockade and the laws of war -- Wartime curtailment of civil rights -- Other problems from the war -- The end of the Taney regime.
Subject United States. Supreme Court -- History -- 19th century.
United States. Supreme Court.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Supreme Court (VS)
7.150.
Added Author United States. Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.
ISBN 0025413805
9780025413801

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