Dred Scott Case Its Significance in American Law and Politics

Name: Dred Scott Case Its Significance in American Law and Politics
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ISBN: 9780195145885

ISBN-10: 0195145887

ISBN-13: 9780195145885

Edition: 2001

Authors: Don E. Fehrenbacher

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case referred to as "the most frequently overturned decision in history." On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott, a slave who maintained he had been emancipated as a result of having lived with his master in the free state of Illinois and in federal territory where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise. The decision did much more than resolve the fate of an elderly black man and his family: Dred Scott v. Sanford was the first instance in which the Supreme Court invalidated a…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 768
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English



Introduction



Out Of The Past



Race, Slavery, and the Origins of the Republic



Slavery in the American Constitutional System



The Pursuit of Freedom



Expansion and Slavery in Early National Politics



Expansion and Slavery in a Continental Republic



The Territorial Question, 1848-1854



Toward Judicial Resolution



The Taney Court and Judicial Power



A Decade Of Litigation



Dred Scott and His Travels



Versus Emerson



Versus Sandford



Before the Supreme Court



Voices in Confusion



What the Court Decided



The Opinion of the Court: Negroes and Citizenship



The Opinion of the Court: Slavery in the Territories



Concurrence and Dissent



Consequences and Echoes



The Judges Judged



The Lecompton Connection



The Freeport Doctrine



Not Peace But a Sword



Reasons Why



In the Stream of History


Notes


Index