Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw

Name: Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw
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ISBN: 9780195048650

ISBN-10: 0195048652

ISBN-13: 9780195048650

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Authors: Leonard W. Levy

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During his thirty years as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, from 1830 to 1860, Lemuel Shaw wrote approximately 2,200 opinions, probably setting a record. His writings covered the entire domain of jurisprudence, excepting admiralty, and no other state judge through his opinions alone had so great an influence on the course of American law. Through a critical study of Shaw's opinions, noted historian Leonard Levy reveals what Shaw's generation thought about the relation of the individual to the state, and of states to the nation, and how his peers perceived rights, duties, and liabilities, the roles of government, and the character of law itself. Each chapter stands as a…

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List price: $67.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/30/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.44" wide x 9.56" long x 1.32" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Leonard W. Levy was Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the Claremont Graduate School. He is editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Origins of the Fifth Amendment.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Lemuel Shaw



The Chief Justice



The Unitarian Controversy



Satan's Apostle and Freedom of Conscience



The Law of Freedom Emancipating Slaves in Transit



The Fugitive Slave Law



Segregation



The Formative Period of Railroad Law



The Formative Period of Railroad Law



Labor Law



Criminal Law



The Police Power



Constitutional Limitations



Constitutional Limitations



Three Decades of Law and Society


Appendix


Bibliography


Table of Cases


Index