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March of Liberty A Constitutional History of the United States Volume I: From the Founding to 1890

by: Urofsky, Melvin I.; Finkelman, Paul

March of Liberty A Constitutional History of the United States Volume I: From the Founding to 1890

by: Urofsky, Melvin I.; Finkelman, Paul

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Copyright: 08/16/2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Preface

1. FROM THE OLD WORLD TO THE NEW

Magna Carta and the Rule of Law * The Common Law Enthroned * Organizing for Settlement * The Merchant Colonies: Virginia and Massachusetts * The Compact Colonies * The Proprietary Colon

Preface

xiii

From the Old World to the New

(16)

Magna Carta and the Rule of Law

(3)

The Common Law Enthroned

(1)

Organizing for Settlement

(3)

The Merchant Colonies: Virginia and Massachusetts

(3)

The Compact Colonies

(1)

The Proprietary Colonies

(1)

Growth of Legislative Dominance

(1)

The English Revolutions and the Dominion of New England

(2)

For Further Reading

(2)

Law in Colonial America

(22)

Settler and Indian Views of Land

(1)

Simplifying Property Law

(2)

Personal Status: Women

(2)

Personal Status: Laborers

(1)

Personal Status: Slaves

(2)

Religion

(3)

Criminal Law

(1)

Lawyers and Practice

(2)

The Privy Council and Imperial Courts

(2)

Witchcraft and Press Freedom

(3)

For Further Reading

(2)

The Road to Independence

(22)

The Mercantile System

(2)

Colonial Governments

(2)

Writs of Assistance

(1)

The Parsons Cause and the Two Penny Act

(1)

Colonial Constitutional Thought

(2)

Republican Ideology

(1)

The British View

(1)

The Stamp Act and the Colonial Response

(2)

The Townshend Duties

(2)

Tea and the Coercive Acts

(1)

The First Continental Congress

(2)

Parting of the Ways

(1)

The Declaration of Independence

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

For Further Reading

(2)

The Revolutionary Era

(19)

Congress Governs

(2)

The Articles of Confederation

(2)

New State Governments

(3)

Conservatives and Radicals

(1)

State Constitutions

(2)

Religious Freedom

(2)

Slavery

(1)

Judicial Review and the Success and Failure of State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era

(1)

The Common Law Survives

(1)

Blackstone's Influence

(2)

Conclusion

(1)

For Further Reading

(3)

The Crisis of Confederation

(13)

Defects of the Articles

(2)

A Government Without Energy

(3)

Western Land Policy

(1)

Northwest Ordinance

(1)

Shays's Rebellion

(2)

Madison and the Annapolis Convention

(1)

Toward the Philadelphia Convention

(1)

For Further Reading

(2)

A More Perfect Union

(27)

The Philadelphia Convention

(2)

Representation and the Structure of Government

(2)

Slavery and Representation

(2)

The Executive Branch

100

(1)

The Judicial Branch

101

(1)

The Powers of the New Government

102

(1)

Regulating Commerce

103

(2)

Concluding the Convention

105

(1)

The Constitution and Federalism

106

(2)

Checks and Balances

108

(1)

The Debate over Ratification

109

(4)

Federalists and Antifederalists

113

(2)

Ratification

115

(1)

Conclusion: The Constitution and Democracy

116

(1)

For Further Reading

117

(3)

Launching the Great Experiment

120

(27)

Washington Takes Office

120

(3)

The Bill of Rights

123

(5)

The Government Takes Shape

128

(1)

Raising a Revenue

128

(2)

Hamilton's Financial Program

130

(2)

The Bank of the United States

132

(1)

The Hamilton--Jefferson Debate

133

(2)

The Whiskey Rebellion

135

(1)

The Slave Trade and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793

136

(2)

Defining Presidential Power

138

(1)

Presidential Conduct of Foreign Affairs

139

(1)

The Neutrality Proclamation

140

(2)

Jay's Treaty

142

(2)

Conclusion: Washington's Achievements

144

(1)

For Further Reading

144

(3)

The Supreme Court: The First Decade

147

(18)

The Federal Court of Appeals

147

(1)

The Judiciary Act of 1789

148

(2)

The Process Act

150

(1)

The Jay Court Convenes

151

(1)

Separation of Powers

152

(3)

Suing States in Federal Courts

155

(1)

Chisholm v. Georgia

156

(2)

The Eleventh Amendment

158

(1)

The Debt Cases

159

(1)

Judicial Review

160

(2)

The Ellsworth Tenure

162

(1)

Circuit Duties

162

(2)

Conclusion

164

(1)

For Further Reading

164

(1)

The Changing Face of the Law

165

(16)

Changes in the Common Law

165

(1)

Criminal Law

166

(3)

Property

169

(1)

Land and Water Usage

170

(2)

Contract

172

(2)

Procedure

174

(2)

Bench and Bar

176

(1)

Legal Literature

177

(2)

Lower Federal Courts

179

(1)

For Further Reading

180

(1)

Adams, Jefferson, and the Courts

181

(26)

The Alien and Sedition Acts

181

(3)

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

184

(1)

The Election of 1800

185

(1)

The Judiciary Act of 1801

186

(1)

John Marshall and the Midnight Judges

187

(1)

Jefferson Takes Office

188

(1)

Repeal of the Judiciary Act

189

(2)

Marbury v. Madison

191

(5)

The Louisiana Purchase

196

(1)

Republican Attacks on the Judiciary: The First Cases

197

(2)

The Impeachment of Justice Chase

199

(2)

Defining Treason

201

(2)

The Burr Trial

203

(1)

Presidential Privilege

204

(1)

For Further Reading

205

(2)

The Marshall Court and National Power

207

(22)

The Attorney General

207

(1)

Changes on the Court

208

(1)

The Embargo Cases

209

(2)

United States v. Peters

211

(1)

The Hartford Convention

212

(1)

The Court and Nationalist Sentiment

213

(2)

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee

215

(2)

Madison's Proposals

217

(1)

The Second Bank of the United States in Court

218

(4)

Coihens v. Virginia

222

(1)

The Steamboat Case

223

(3)

Conclusion: The Marshall Court's Legacy

226

(1)

For Further Reading

227

(2)

The Marshall Court and Economic Development

229

(19)

Law and Economic Development

229

(3)

Fletcher v. Peck

232

(3)

Public Land Cases

235

(3)

The Emergence of the Corporation

238

(1)

Defining Corporate Rights

239

(2)

The Dartmouth College Case

241

(3)

Bankruptcy

244

(2)

Conclusion: The Marshall Court's Legacy

246

(1)

For Further Reading

247

(1)

A Law Made for the Times

248

(23)

Debate over the Law

248

(1)

An American System

249

(1)

Legal Instrumentalism

250

(1)

Changing Views of Land

251

(1)

Water Usage

252

(3)

Taking of Land

255

(2)

Emergence of Tort Law

257

(2)

Master and Servant

259

(3)

Commercial Law

262

(1)

The Corporation

262

(1)

Sales

263

(1)

Negotiable Instruments

264

(2)

Contract

266

(2)

Conclusion

268

(1)

For Further Reading

269

(2)

Politics, Nationalism, and Competition

271

(25)

The ``Era of Good Feeling,''

271

(2)

Georgia, Jackson, and the Indians

273

(2)

Georgia, the Indians, and the Court

275

(1)

Calhoun Responds to the Tariff

276

(2)

The Webster--Hayne Debate

278

(1)

The Nullification Crisis

279

(3)

Internal Improvements

282

(1)

Jackson Versus the Bank

283

(4)

Monopoly and Economic Expansion

287

(1)

The Charles River Bridge Case Begins

288

(2)

The Last Years of the Marshall Court

290

(1)

Chief Justice Taney

290

(2)

The Charles River Bridge Case Is Decided

292

(1)

Conclusion: The New Departure

293

(1)

For Further Reading

294

(2)

Jacksonian Democracy

296

(24)

A Sense of Mastery

296

(2)

State Constitutional Development

298

(2)

Constitutional Flexibility

300

(1)

The Political Party and Its Function

301

(2)

Family Law

303

(1)

Women's Rights

304

(1)

Children and the Law

305

(2)

Early Labor Movements

307

(2)

Debtor Imprisinment

309

(2)

Pauper Relief

311

(2)

The New Prison

313

(1)

Code Revision

313

(3)

Race Relations and Antislavery

316

(2)

Conclusion

318

(1)

For Further Reading

318

(2)

The Taney Court: Change and Continuity

320

(17)

The New Chief Justice

320

(3)

The Court and Codification

323

(1)

Federal Common Law: Swift v. Tyson

324

(2)

The Police Power

326

(1)

Bank of Augusta v. Earle

327

(1)

The License and Passenger Cases

328

(2)

Defining State and Federal Powers

330

(1)

The Wheeling Bridge Case

331

(1)

The ``Political Question'' Doctrine

332

(1)

Dorr's Rebellion

333

(1)

Luther v. Borden

334

(1)

Conclusion: The Taney Court's Balance

335

(1)

For Further Reading

336

(1)

The Peculiar Laws of America's Peculiar Institution

337

(29)

Slavery in the New Nation

338

(2)

The Missouri Compromise

340

(3)

Black and White Opposition to Slavery: Slave Rebels and New Abolitionists

343

(1)

Abolitionist Theories and the Constitution

344

(2)

Abolitionist Use of the Law

346

(1)

Slaves in Transit

346

(2)

Antebellum Race Discrimination

348

(3)

Federal Fugitive Slave Laws

351

(1)

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

352

(2)

Law and Conscience

354

(1)

Southern Slave Codes

355

(2)

Controlling the Bondsmen

357

(2)

Slaves and Criminall Law

359

(2)

Manumission

361

(1)

Free Blacks

362

(1)

Conclusion

363

(1)

For Further Reading

364

(2)

A House Dividing

366

(35)

The Gag Rule

366

(2)

The Amistad Case

368

(3)

The Line Star Republic

371

(1)

Annexing Texas

372

(1)

Constitutional Questions over Annexation

373

(1)

Presidential War Powers

374

(2)

The Wilmot Proviso

376

(1)

Free Labor and Free Soil

376

(2)

Calhoun's Southern Ideology

378

(1)

The Compromise of 1850

379

(2)

The Slave Trade in the Nation's Capital, California Statehood, and Slavery in the Territories

381

(1)

The Fugitive Slave Law

382

(2)

The Kansas--Nebraska Act

384

(1)

Obstructing the Fugitive Slave Act

385

(2)

``Bleeding Kansas,''

387

(1)

The Republican Party

388

(1)

Dred Scott's Case

389

(2)

The Self-Inflicted Wound

391

(2)

The Dred Scott Decision

393

(1)

The Aftermath

394

(1)

Kansas, Once Again

395

(1)

Ableman v. Booth

396

(2)

Conclusion

398

(1)

For Further Reading

399

(2)

The Union Sundered

401

(28)

The Election of 1860

402

(1)

Secession Winter

403

(2)

``And The War Came,''

405

(1)

The Provisional Confederate Constitution

406

(2)

The Permanent Confederate Constitution

408

(2)

Defects in the Confederate Scheme

410

(1)

The Political Party as a War Tool

411

(1)

Lincoln Takes Control

412

(2)

Ex Parte Merryman

414

(1)

Judicial Reorganization in Wartime

415

(2)

The Adequacy of the Constitution

417

(2)

War Powers and the Rebellion

419

(1)

Defining Rebel Status

420

(1)

The Growth of National Power

421

(2)

The Emancipation Proclamation

423

(3)

The Thirteenth Amendment

426

(1)

For Further Reading

427

(2)

The Union Unrestored

429

(22)

Problems of Military Occupation

429

(2)

Loyalty Oaths

431

(1)

Congress Takes a Hand

432

(1)

Expanding Federal Court Jurisdiction

432

(1)

Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan

433

(1)

The Wade--Davis Bill

434

(2)

Enter Andrew Johnson

436

(1)

Presidential Reconstruction

437

(2)

The Joint Committee on Reconstruction

439

(1)

Southern Intransigence

440

(1)

The Freedmen's Bureau Bills of 1866

441

(1)

The Civil Rights Act

442

(2)

The Fourteenth Amendment

444

(3)

The Congressional Plan

447

(1)

Conclusion

448

(1)

For Further Reading

449

(2)

Reconstruction

451

(28)

Governmental Deadlock

451

(2)

The Military Reconstruction Acts

453

(1)

The New State Governments

454

(1)

Southern Resistance

455

(2)

Restricting the Executive

457

(1)

Impeachment

458

(3)

The Senate Trial

461

(3)

The Meaning of Acquittal

464

(1)

Reconstruction in the Courts

465

(1)

Ex Parte Milligan

465

(2)

Testing Congressional Reconstruction Powers

467

(1)

McCardle and yerger

468

(2)

Texas v. White

470

(1)

Changing the Size of the Court

471

(1)

The Legal Tender Cases

472

(2)

The End of Reconstruction

474

(1)

The Election of 1876

475

(1)

Conclusion: The Legacy of Reconstruction

476

(1)

For Further Reading

477

(2)

The Court and Civil Rights

479

The Abandonment of the Freedmen

480

(1)

The Civil Rights Cases

481

(1)

Jim Crow Enthroned

482

(3)

The Treatment of Native Americans

485

(2)

The Chinese Cases

487

(2)

The Insular Cases

489

(1)

The Incorporation Theory

490

(2)

Women and the Law

492

(2)

The Court Draws Limits

494

(1)

The Peonage Cases

495

(2)

A Few Small Steps

497

(1)

Conclusion

498

(1)

For Further Reading

498

Appendixes

The Declaration of Independence

Articles of Confederation

Constitution of the United States

A11

Justices of the U.S. Supereme Court

A28

Case Index

Subject Index

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March of Liberty A Constitutional History of the United States Volume I: From the Founding to 1890

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