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9780195128703

Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History Volume I: From the Founding Through the Age of Industrialization

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    9780195128703

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    0195128702

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-08-23
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, 2/e , is a two-volume companion to Urofsky and Finkelman's successful text, A March of Liberty, 2/e . Organized chronologically, this documents reader skillfully weaves together constitutional and legal history, offering students a mix of both frequently cited and lesser-known-but equally important-historical documents and court decisions that have been instrumental in shaping the nation's constitutional development. The editors provide an introduction to each document, which summarizes its significance and places it within its historical context. Each introduction is followed by a brief list of suggestions for further reading. Both volumes contain the complete text of the U.S. Constitution for ease of reference. Now in its second edition, Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History has been updated to reflect the most recent constitutional and legal scholarship, including material on the latest Supreme Court decisions and the recent presidential election controversy. In addition, the introductory notes and suggested reading sections have also been revised. Volume II covers the period from the age of industrialization to the present. Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, 2/e , is an essential resource for courses in U.S. Constitutional history and legal history, as well as constitutional law courses in other disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface x
Magna Carta (1215)
1(2)
Letters Patent to Sir Humpfrey Gylberte (1578)
3(2)
Virginia Rules on Conduct and Religion (1619)
5(2)
Blacks and Slavery Come to Virginia (1619-1640)
7(1)
Mayflower Compact (1620)
8(2)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
10(2)
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644)
12(2)
Roger Williams
Virginia Statutes on Slavery (1662-1669)
14(2)
Frame of Government (1682)
16(5)
William Penn
Zenger's Case (1735)
21(6)
Indian and White Views on Property (1742)
27(3)
Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
30(3)
James Otis
Parliamentary Omnipotence (1765)
33(2)
William Blackstone
Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions (1765)
35(1)
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
36(2)
Declaratory Act (1766)
38(2)
Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, II (1767)
40(2)
John Dickinson
Somerset v Stewart (1772)
42(3)
Common Sense (1776)
45(5)
Thomas Paine
Thoughts on Government (1776)
50(4)
John Adams
Declaration of Independence (1776)
54(5)
The Pennsylvania Bill of Rights (1776)
59(2)
The Articles of Confederation (1781)
61(7)
Vermont Reception Statute (1782)
68(1)
Land Ordinance (1785)
69(2)
Observations on the Pernicious Practice of Law (1786), Honestus
71(2)
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
73(2)
The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
75(4)
The Constitutional Convention: Proposals for Government (1787)
79(6)
The Virginia Plan
80(2)
The New Jersey Plan
82(2)
Hamilton's Plan
84(1)
Constitution of the United States (1787)
85(18)
Objections to the Proposed Constitution (1787)
103(3)
George Mason
The Federalist (1787-1788)
106(6)
Judiciary Act (1789)
112(3)
Opinion on the Constituionality of a National Bank (1791)
115(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States (1791)
119(3)
Alexander Hamilton
Reply to Washington on Advisory Opinions (1793)
122(2)
John Jay
Pacificus No. I (1793)
124(3)
Alexander Hamilton
Helvidius No. I (1793)
127(3)
James Madison
Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)
130(3)
Hylton v. United States (1796)
133(4)
The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
137(5)
Naturalization Act of 1798
138(1)
The Alien Friends Act
139(1)
The Alien Enemies Act
140(1)
The Sedition Act of 1798
141(1)
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798)
142(7)
Georgia Judiciary Act (1799)
149(2)
Instruction from Virginia Assembly to the Virginia Senators on Common Law (1800)
151(1)
First Inaugural Address (1801)
152(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Marbury v Madison (1803)
156(6)
Memorandum on Louisiana Purchase (1803)
162(3)
Albert Gallatin
Charge to Grand Jury (1803)
165(3)
Samuel Chase
Palmer v Mulligan (1805)
168(2)
Commonwealth v. Pullis (1806) (The Philadelphia Cordwainders Case)
170(2)
Ex Parte Bollman (1807)
172(3)
United States v. Peters (1809)
175(3)
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
178(4)
Sands v. Taylor (1810)
182(3)
United States v. Hudson and Goodwin (1812)
185(2)
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816)
187(4)
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
191(7)
Sturges v. Crowninshield (1819)
198(3)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
201(9)
Defense of States' Rights (1820)
210(3)
John Taylor
Against Universal Suffrage (1821)
213(3)
James Kent
Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
216(5)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
221(5)
Eakin v. Raub (1825)
226(2)
Tyler v. Wilkinson (1827)
228(4)
American Insurance Co. v. Canter (1828)
232(3)
Lansing v. Smith (1828)
235(3)
South Carolina Exposition (1828)
238(4)
John C. Calhoun
State v. Mann (1829)
242(3)
Veto of Maysville Road Bill (1830)
245(3)
Andrew Jackson
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832)
248(2)
Veto of Bank Bill (1832)
250(7)
Andrew Jackson
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
257(6)
Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
263(3)
Rules of Constitutional Interpretation (1833)
266(9)
Joseph Story
Declaration of American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
275(4)
Commonwealth v. Aves (1836)
279(4)
Mayor of New York v. Miln (1837)
283(5)
Proprietors of the Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of the Warren (1837)
288(4)
Nickerson's Case (1837)
292(2)
Parker v. Foote (1838)
294(4)
Mercein v. People Ex. Rel. Barry (1840)
298(3)
Swift v. Tyson (1842)
301(2)
Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
303(6)
Farwell v Boston & Worcester Railroad (1842)
309(4)
Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)
313(4)
Jones v. Van Zandt (1847)
317(3)
What Shall Be Done with the Practice of the Courts? (1847)
320(6)
David Field
Declaration of Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
326(2)
State v. Caesar (1849)
328(7)
Luther v. Borden (1849)
335(4)
Roberts v. City of Boston (1849)
339(4)
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
343(3)
Commonwealth v. Alger (1851)
346(5)
Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia (1851)
351(3)
Ohio Constitution (1851)
354(6)
Hentz v. Long Island Railroad Co. (1852)
360(3)
Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855)
363(3)
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
366(12)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
378(4)
Ableman v. Booth (1859)
382(5)
Slave Code of Virginia (1860)
387(7)
Limits of Federal Power (1860)
394(5)
Jeremiah S. Black
South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860)
399(1)
Kentucky v. Dennison (1861)
400(6)
The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861)
406(8)
First Inaugural Address (1861)
414(7)
Abraham Lincoln
Ex Parte Merryman (1861)
421(5)
Land Policy on the Home Front
426(2)
The Homestead Act (1862)
427(1)
The Morrill [Land Grant College] Act (1862)
427(1)
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
428(3)
Prize Cases (1863)
431(5)
Adequacy of the Constitution (1863)
436(3)
William Whiting
Gettysburg Address (1863)
439(1)
Abraham Lincoln
Early Plans for Reconstruction (1863-1864)
440(9)
Ten Percent Plan (1863)
442(2)
Abraham Lincoln
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
444(2)
Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction (1864)
446(1)
Abraham Lincoln
Wade-Davis Manifesto (1864)
447(2)
Constitutionality of Draft (1864)
449(3)
Abraham Lincoln
Ex Parte Vallandigham (1864)
452(2)
Second Inaugural Address (1865)
454(2)
Abraham Lincoln
Black Codes of Alabama and Mississippi (1865)
456(7)
Alabama Acts
457(3)
Mississippi Acts
460(3)
Civil Rights Act (1866)
463(4)
Veto of Civil Rights Act (1866)
467(5)
Andrew Johnson
Ex Parte Milligan (1866)
472(5)
Articles of Impeachment Against Andrew Johnson (1867)
477(4)
Ex Parte McCardle (1868)
481(2)
Ex Parte Yerger (1869)
483(5)
Texas v White (1869)
488(7)
Legal Tender Cases (1871)
495(4)
Slaughterhouse Cases (1871)
499(5)
Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
504(3)
Minor v. Happersett (1875)
507(3)
Commonwealth v. Hamilton Manufacturing Co. (1876)
510(1)
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
511(4)
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
515(4)
Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
519(3)
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Ry Co. v. Illinois (1886)
522(2)
The Police Power (1886)
524(4)
Christopher J. Tiedman
United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)
528(3)
In re Debs (1895)
531(2)
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895)
533(3)
Ritchie v. People (1895)
536(3)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
539(4)
People's Party Platform (1896)
543
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