A march of liberty : a constitutional history of the United States / Melvin I. Urofsky, Paul Finkelman.
2002
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A march of liberty : a constitutional history of the United States / Melvin I. Urofsky, Paul Finkelman.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Call Number
KF4541 .U76 2002
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
0195126343 (v. 1 (cloth) : alk. paper)
0195126351 (v. 1 (pbk).)
019512636X (v. 2 (cloth))
0195126378 (v. 2 (pbk).)
0195126351 (v. 1 (pbk).)
019512636X (v. 2 (cloth))
0195126378 (v. 2 (pbk).)
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2 volumes ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)47050161
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1.
From the Old World to the New
1
Magna Carta and the Rule of Law
1
The Common Law Enthroned
4
Organizing for Settlement
4
The Merchant Colonies: Virginia and Massachusetts
7
The Compact Colonies
10
The Proprietary Colonies
11
Growth of Legislative Dominance
12
The English Revolutions and the Dominion of New England
13
For Further Reading
15
2.
Law in Colonial America
17
Settler and Indian Views of Land
18
Simplifying Property Law
19
Personal Status: Women
21
Personal Status: Laborers
23
Personal Status: Slaves
24
Religion
26
Criminal Law
29
Lawyers and Practice
30
The Privy Council and Imperial Courts
32
Witchcraft and Press Freedom
34
For Further Reading
37
3.
The Road to Independence
39
The Mercantile System
39
Colonial Governments
41
Writs of Assistance
43
The Parsons Cause and the Two Penny Act
44
Colonial Constitutional Thought
45
Republican Ideology
47
The British View
48
The Stamp Act and the Colonial Response
49
The Townshend Duties
51
Tea and the Coercive Acts
53
The First Continental Congress
54
Parting of the Ways
56
The Declaration of Independence
57
Conclusion
58
For Further Reading
59
4.
The Revolutionary Era
61
Congress Governs
61
The Articles of Confederation
63
New State Governments
65
Conservatives and Radicals
68
State Constitutions
69
Religious Freedom
71
Slavery
73
Judicial Review and the Success and Failure of State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era
74
The Common Law Survives
74
Blackstone's Influence
75
Conclusion
77
For Further Reading
77
5.
The Crisis of Confederation
80
Defects of the Articles
81
A Government Without Energy
83
Western Land Policy
86
Northwest Ordinance
87
Shays's Rebellion
88
Madison and the Annapolis Convention
90
Toward the Philadelphia Convention
91
For Further Reading
91
6.
A More Perfect Union
93
The Philadelphia Convention
94
Representation and the Structure of Government
96
Slavery and Representation
98
The Executive Branch
100
The Judicial Branch
101
The Powers of the New Government
102
Regulating Commerce
103
Concluding the Convention
105
The Constitution and Federalism
106
Checks and Balances
108
The Debate over Ratification
109
Federalists and Antifederalists
113
Ratification
115
Conclusion: The Constitution and Democracy
116
For Further Reading
117
7.
Launching the Great Experiment
120
Washington Takes Office
120
The Bill of Rights
123
The Government Takes Shape
128
Raising a Revenue
128
Hamilton's Financial Program
130
The Bank of the United States
132
The Hamilton--Jefferson Debate
133
The Whiskey Rebellion
135
The Slave Trade and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
136
Defining Presidential Power
138
Presidential Conduct of Foreign Affairs
139
The Neutrality Proclamation
140
Jay's Treaty
142
Conclusion: Washington's Achievements
144
For Further Reading
144
8.
The Supreme Court: the First Decade
147
The Federal Court of Appeals
147
The Judiciary Act of 1789
148
The Process Act
150
The Jay Court Convenes
151
Separation of Powers
152
Suing States in Federal Courts
155
Chisholm v. Georgia
156
The Eleventh Amendment
158
The Debt Cases
159
Judicial Review
160
The Ellsworth Tenure
162
Circuit Duties
162
Conclusion
164
For Further Reading
164
9.
The Changing Face of the Law
165
Changes in the Common Law
165
Criminal Law
166
Property
169
Land and Water Usage
170
Contract
172
Procedure
174
Bench and Bar
176
Legal Literature
177
Lower Federal Courts
179
For Further Reading
180
10.
Adams, Jefferson, and the Courts
181
The Alien and Sedition Acts
181
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
184
The Election of 1800
185
The Judiciary Act of 1801
186
John Marshall and the Midnight Judges
187
Jefferson Takes Office
188
Repeal of the Judiciary Act
189
Marbury v. Madison
191
The Louisiana Purchase
196
Republican Attacks on the Judiciary: The First Cases
197
The Impeachment of Justice Chase
199
Defining Treason
201
The Burr Trial
203
Presidential Privilege
204
For Further Reading
205
11.
The Marshall Court and National Power
207
The Attorney General
207
Changes on the Court
208
The Embargo Cases
209
United States v. Peters
211
The Hartford Convention
212
The Court and Nationalist Sentiment
213
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee
215
Madison's Proposals
217
The Second Bank of the United States in Court
218
Cohens v. Virginia
222
The Steamboat Case
223
Conclusion: The Marshall Court's Legacy
226
For Further Reading
227
12.
The Marshall Court and Economic Development
229
Law and Economic Development
229
Fletcher v. Peck
232
Public Land Cases
235
The Emergence of the Corporation
238
Defining Corporate Rights
239
The Dartmouth College Case
241
Bankruptcy
244
Conclusion: The Marshall Court's Legacy
246
For Further Reading
247
13.
A Law Made for the Times
248
Debate over the Law
248
An American System
249
Legal Instrumentalism
250
Changing Views of Land
251
Water Usage
252
Taking of Land
255
Emergence of Tort Law
257
Master and Servant
259
Commercial Law
262
The Corporation
262
Sales
263
Negotiable Instruments
264
Contract
266
Conclusion
268
For Further Reading
269
14.
Politics, Nationalism, and Competition
271
The "Era of Good Feeling,"
271
Georgia, Jackson, and the Indians
273
Georgia, the Indians, and the Court
275
Calhoun Responds to the Tariff
276
The Webster-Hayne Debate
278
The Nullification Crisis
279
Internal Improvements
282
Jackson Versus the Bank
283
Monopoly and Economic Expansion
287
The Charles River Bridge Case Begins
288
The Last Years of the Marshall Court
290
Chief Justice Taney
290
The Charles River Bridge Case Is Decided
292
Conclusion: The New Departure
293
For Further Reading
294
15.
Jacksonian Democracy
296
A Sense of Mastery
296
State Constitutional Development
298
Constitutional Flexibility
300
The Political Party and Its Function
301
Family Law
303
Women's Rights
304
Children and the Law
305
Early Labor Movements
307
Debtor Imprisonment
309
Pauper Relief
311
The New Prison
313
Code Revision
313
Race Relations and Antislavery
316
Conclusion
318
For Further Reading
318
16.
The Taney Court: Change and Continuity
320
The New Chief Justice
320
The Court and Codification
323
Federal Common Law: Swift v. Tyson
324
The Police Power
326
Bank of Augusta v. Earle
327
The License and Passenger Cases
328
Defining State and Federal Powers
330
The Wheeling Bridge Case
331
The "Political Question" Doctrine
332
Dorr's Rebellion
333
Luther v. Borden
334
Conclusion: The Taney Court's Balance
335
For Further Reading
336
17.
The Peculiar Laws of America's Peculiar Institution
337
Slavery in the New Nation
338
The Missouri Compromise
340
Black and White Opposition to Slavery: Slave Rebels and New Abolitionists
343
Abolitionist Theories and the Constitution
344
Abolitionist Use of the Law
346
Slaves in Transit
346
Antebellum Race Discrimination
348
Federal Fugitive Slave Laws
351
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
352
Law and Conscience
354
Southern Slave Codes
355
Controlling the Bondsmen
357
Slaves and Criminal Law
359
Manumission
361
Free Blacks
362
Conclusion
363
For Further Reading
364
18.
A House Dividing
366
The Gag Rule
366
The Amistad Case
368
The Lone Star Republic
371
Annexing Texas
372
Constitutional Questions over Annexation
373
Presidential War Powers
374
The Wilmot Proviso
376
Free Labor and Free Soil
376
Calhoun's Southern Ideology
378
The Compromise of 1850
379
The Slave Trade in the Nation's Capital, California Statehood, and Slavery in the Territories
381
The Fugitive Slave Law
382
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
384
Obstructing the Fugitive Slave Act
385
"Bleeding Kansas,"
387
The Republican Party
388
Dred Scott's Case
389
The Self-Inflicted Wound
391
The Dred Scott Decision
393
The Aftermath
394
Kansas, Once Again
395
Ableman v. Booth
396
Conclusion
398
For Further Reading
399
19.
The Union Sundered
401
The Election of 1860
402
Secession Winter
403
"And the War Came"
405
The Provisional Confederate Constitution
406
The Permanent Confederate Constitution
408
Defects in the Confederate Scheme
410
The Political Party as a War Tool
411
Lincoln Takes Control
412
Ex Parte Merryman
414
Judicial Reorganization in Wartime
415
The Adequacy of the Constitution
417
War Powers and the Rebellion
419
Defining Rebel Status
420
The Growth of National Power
421
The Emancipation Proclamation
423
The Thirteenth Amendment
426
For Further Reading
427
20.
The Union Unrestored
429
Problems of Military Occupation
429
Loyalty Oaths
431
Congress Takes a Hand
432
Expanding Federal Court Jurisdiction
432
Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan
433
The Wade-Davis Bill
434
Enter Andrew Johnson
436
Presidential Reconstruction
437
The Joint Committee on Reconstruction
439
Southern Intransigence
440
The Freedmen's Bureau Bills of 1866
441
The Civil Rights Act
442
The Fourteenth Amendment
444
The Congressional Plan
447
Conclusion
448
For Further Reading
449
21.
Reconstruction
451
Governmental Deadlock
451
The Military Reconstruction Acts
453
The New State Governments
454
Southern Resistance
455
Restricting the Executive
457
Impeachment
458
The Senate Trial
461
The Meaning of Acquittal
464
Reconstruction in the Courts
465
Ex Parte Milligan
465
Testing Congressional Reconstruction Powers
467
McCardle and Yerger
468
Texas v. White
470
Changing the Size of the Court
471
The Legal Tender Cases
472
The End of Reconstruction
474
The Election of 1876
475
Conclusion: The Legacy of Reconstruction
476
For Further Reading
477
22.
The Court and Civil Rights
479
The Abandonment of the Freedmen
480
The Civil Rights Cases
481
Jim Crow Enthroned
482
The Treatment of Native Americans
485
The Chinese Cases
487
The Insular Cases
489
The Incorporation Theory
490
Women and the Law
492
The Court Draws Limits
494
The Peonage Cases
495
A Few Small Steps
497
Conclusion
498
For Further Reading
498
Appendixes
The Declaration of Independence
1
Articles of Confederation
5
Constitution of the United States
11
Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court
28
Case Index
1
Subject Index
6