[PDF] Brent V Chapman 9 Us 358 1809 eBook

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Release : 1809
Category : Law
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Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674982088

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The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil War—Chief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph Story—upheld the institution of slavery in ruling after ruling. These opinions cast a shadow over the Court and the legacies of these men, but historians have rarely delved deeply into the personal and political ideas and motivations they held. In Supreme Injustice, the distinguished legal historian Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice’s proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the incentives created by circumstances in his private life. Finkelman uses census data and other sources to reveal that Justice Marshall aggressively bought and sold slaves throughout his lifetime—a fact that biographers have ignored. Justice Story never owned slaves and condemned slavery while riding circuit, and yet on the high court he remained silent on slave trade cases and ruled against blacks who sued for freedom. Although Justice Taney freed many of his own slaves, he zealously and consistently opposed black freedom, arguing in Dred Scott that free blacks had no Constitutional rights and that slave owners could move slaves into the Western territories. Finkelman situates this infamous holding within a solid record of support for slavery and hostility to free blacks. Supreme Injustice boldly documents the entanglements that alienated three major justices from America’s founding ideals and embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.

Author : Merkin, Rob
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 1538 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788116755

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This authoritative work forms a comprehensive examination of the legal and historical context of marine insurance, providing a detailed overview of the events and factors leading to its codification in the Marine Insurance Act 1906. It investigates the development of the legal principles and case law that underpin the Act to reveal how successful this codification truly was, and to demonstrate how these historical precedents remain relevant to marine insurance law to this day.

Author : Mark E. Brandon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691015811

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"Brandon also develops a general typology of constitutional failure. He identifies several ways in which failure can occur, shows that failure in one area may signify success in another, and argues that the possibility of failure is built into the foundations of all constitutional regimes."--BOOK JACKET.

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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 1809
Category : Law
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