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Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History

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ISBN-10: 0195128729

ISBN-13: 9780195128727

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Melvin I. Urofsky, Paul Finkelman

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This book is a two-volume companion to Urofsky and Finkleman's new edition of "A March of Liberty." This reader provides students with a mix of both frequently cited and lesser-known but equally important historical documents and court decisions which have shaped the nation's constitutional development, beginning with it colonization and extending to the latest decisions of the Supreme Court. Each volume is organized chronologically, and the authors have written an introduction toeach document summarizing its significance and placing it in its historical context. Each document is also accompanied by a brief list of suggestions for further readings. In addition, the complete text of the U.S.…    
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List price: $38.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 524
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

MU: Emeritus Professor of History and Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University; co-author of Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, Volumes 1 & 2, 2e (OUP, 2001). PF: Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School, co-author of Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, Volumes 1 & 2, 2e (OUP, 2001) and American Legal History, 3e (OUP 2004).

127. Slaughter House Cases (1873)128. Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)129. Minor v. Happerset (1875)130. Commonwealth v. Hamilton Manufacturing Co. (1876)131. Munn v. Ilinois (1877)132. Civil Rights Cases (1883)133. Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)134. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Ry. Co. v. Illinois (1886)135. The Police Power (1886), Christopher J. Tiedeman136. United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)137. In re Debs (1895)138. Pollock v. Farmers'' Loan & Trust Co. (1895)139. Richie v. People (1895)140. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)141. People''s Party Platform (1896)142. Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897)143. Holden v. Hardy (1898)144. Northern Securities Co. v. United States (1904)145. McCray v. United States…