Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861

by Maltz, Earl M.; Graber, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9780700616664
• ISBN10: 0700616667
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-03
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Banality of Constitutional Evil	p. ix
Preface	p. xvii
The Jurisprudence of the Marshall Court
Prelude to Conflict: The Marshall Court and The Antelope	p. 3
The Marshall Court and Federalism	p. 12
The Age of Accommodation
Sectionalism and the Rise of the Second-Party System	p. 23
The Supreme Court in the Early 1840s	p. 32
United States v. The Amistad	p. 52
Slavery, the Commerce Power, and Groves v. Slaughter	p. 68
The Problem of Fugitive Slaves	p. 83
Assessment	p. 114
The Conflict Escalates, 1843-1853
Slavery and Territorial Expansion	p. 119
The Controversy over Fugitive Slaves, 1843-1853	p. 136
The Supreme Court in 1846	p. 143
Revisiting the Commerce Power	p. 149
The Ongoing Struggle over Fugitive Slaves	p. 155
Prelude to Dred Scott: Strader v. Graham and the Doctrine of Reattachment	p. 165
Assessment	p. 165
The Sectionalization of American Politics, 1853-1859
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Anthony Burns Affair, and the Demise of the Second-Party System	p. 177
The Supreme Court in the Mid-1850s	p. 184
Ableman v. Booth, Part 1: Northern Nullification	p. 196
Dred Scott, Part 1: The Road to the Supreme Court	p. 210
The Court on the Brink	p. 227
Sectionalism on the March	p. 230
Dred Scott, Part 2: Reargument and Reconsideration	p. 235
Dred Scott, Part 3: The Opinions of the Justices	p. 243
Dred Scott, Part 4: The Reaction to the Court's Decision	p. 268
Ableman v. Booth, Part 2: The Court Decides	p. 278
The Isolated Court
The Election of 1860	p. 289
Kentucky v. Dennison and the Problem of Extradition	p. 291
Conclusion: The Lessons of the Slavery Cases	p. 299
Notes	p. 303
Bibliography	p. 335
Index	p. 345
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