TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenberg,Ethan
TI  - Dred Scott and the dangers of a political court
SN  - 0739137581 : HRD
AV  - KF228.S27 G74 2009
U1  - 342.7308/7 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Scott, Dred,
KW  - Sanford, John F.A., 1806- or 7-1857
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; A slave's life -- False promise of freedom : Scott's state court trials -- "A dark and fell spirit" : the Missouri Supreme Court reverses -- New trial and defeat in St. Louis federal court -- At the summit : argument and reargument before the U.S. Supreme Court -- The president-elect secretly intervenes -- "The South is doomed" : Chief Justice Roger Taney -- Taney's opinion of the court : an overview -- Can a black man be a true American? : Taney on Negro citizenship -- "Upon these considerations" : Taney strikes down the Missouri compromise -- The road not taken : Taney on choice of law and res judicata -- The majority concurs (after a fashion) -- Two ringing dissents -- Reaction and the way to Civil War -- The use and misuse of history -- The aspirationalist critique : "indifference to injustice" -- The originalist critique : "first cousin to Roe" -- The traditional "judicial restraint" critique -- Dred Scott and the dangers of a political court
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