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The Dred Scott Case. It's Significance in American Law and Politics.
Don E. Fehrenbacher
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Description for The Dred Scott Case. It's Significance in American Law and Politics.
paperback. Studies this famous case of judicial failure, and discusses the legal bases of slavery, the debate over the Constitution, and the dispute over slavery and continental expansion. Num Pages: 768 pages, 5 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 171 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1110.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, this 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 ... Read more
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, this 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
768
Condition
New
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780195145885
SKU
V9780195145885
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About Don E. Fehrenbacher
The late Don E. Fehrenbacher was William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University.
Reviews for The Dred Scott Case. It's Significance in American Law and Politics.
"Probably the most thorough study of any Supreme Court decision ever undertaken."
C. Vann Woodward, The New York Review of Books "A masterful reexamination of some of the most complex and enduring American constitutional problems...I know of no other book on the slavery controversy that contributes so much to the specialist's knowledge yet is so readily accessible to the general reader."
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C. Vann Woodward, The New York Review of Books "A masterful reexamination of some of the most complex and enduring American constitutional problems...I know of no other book on the slavery controversy that contributes so much to the specialist's knowledge yet is so readily accessible to the general reader."
David ... Read more