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The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause: Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
Tony Allan Freyer
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Hardcover. The tangled history of the 19th century court ruling that defined the powers of the states to control who they could and could not allow to cross their borders and its application to the current immigration debates. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL3; LNDA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
In 1849 Chief Justice Taney's Court delivered a 5-4 decision on the legal status of immigrants and free blacks under the federal commerce power. The closely divided decision, further emphasized by the fact there were eight opinions, played a part in the increasingly contested politics over growing immigration, and the controversies about fugitive slaves and the western expansion of slavery that resulted in the Compromise of 1850.
In the decades after the Civil War federal regulation of immigration almost entirely displaced the role of the states. Yet, over a century later, Justice Scalia in Arizona v. US appealed ... Read more
In 1849 Chief Justice Taney's Court delivered a 5-4 decision on the legal status of immigrants and free blacks under the federal commerce power. The closely divided decision, further emphasized by the fact there were eight opinions, played a part in the increasingly contested politics over growing immigration, and the controversies about fugitive slaves and the western expansion of slavery that resulted in the Compromise of 1850.
In the decades after the Civil War federal regulation of immigration almost entirely displaced the role of the states. Yet, over a century later, Justice Scalia in Arizona v. US appealed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Landmark Law Cases and American Society
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700620081
SKU
V9780700620081
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About Tony Allan Freyer
Tony Allan Freyer is University Research Professor of History and Law, Emeritus at the University of Alabama, USA. He is the author of Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Segregation, and served as a consultant on that subject for the documentary Eyes on the Prize.
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