Republic According to John Marshall Harlan

Name: Republic According to John Marshall Harlan
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ISBN: 9780807847893

ISBN-10: 0807847895

ISBN-13: 9780807847893

Edition: 1999

Authors: Linda Przybyszewski

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Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) is best known for condemning racial segregation in his dissent fromPlessy v. Fergusonin 1896, when he declared, "Our Constitution is color-blind." But in other judicial decisionsas well as in some areas of his lifeHarlan's actions directly contradicted the essence of his famous statement. Similarly, Harlan was called the people's judge for favoring income tax and antitrust laws, yet he also upheld doctrines that benefited large corporations. Examining these and other puzzles in Harlan's judicial career, Linda Przybyszewski draws on a rich array of previously neglected sourcesincluding the verbatim transcripts of his 1897-98 lectures on…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/27/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Linda Przbyszewski is an associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Best Type of Slave-holders: A Family Ethic of Paternalism



Little or No Scope for Originality: Law, Religion, and the Union



An Opportunity to Make a Record: The Judge's Role



Every True Man Has Pride of Race: Civil Rights, Social Rights, and Racial Identity



The Hopes of Freemen Everywhere: Anglo-Saxonism and the Spanish-American War



This Age of Money Getting: Constitutional Nationalism and Free Labor



You May Rightfully Aspire: Manhood and Success in the Republic


Conclusion


Appendix: Harlan's List of Opinions for Publication


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Illustrations


Tintype of John Marshall Harlan, circa 1903 frontispiece



French Shanklin Harlan raised his own Union regiment, the 10th Kentucky


Infantry, in September 1861


New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., in 1903


Portrait of the Centennial Bench of Elders of the New York


Avenue Presbyterian Church in 1903


Harlan and Augustus E. Willson at Transylvania University in 1908 1882


photograph of the U.S. Supreme Court 1911


photograph of the U.S. Supreme Court Front page of the 17 February 1898


issue of theNew York Worlddepicting the explosion of the U.S. battleship


Mainein the harbor at Havana, Cuba Cartoon on the cover of the 11 June 1898


issue of Judgedepicting the Philippines as a dark-skinned, primitive, and noisy infant James


Shanklin Harlan Cartoon in the 7 September 1898


issue of Puckdepicting Standard Oil as an octopus John Maynard Harlan Richard Davenport Harlan