Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story

by Newmyer, R. Kent

• ISBN13: 9780807841648
• ISBN10: 0807841641
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican values generated by the American Revolution. Story's greatest objective was to fashion a national jurisprudence that would carry the American people into the modern age without losing those values.

Author Biography

R. Kent Newmyer is professor of history at the University of Connecticut

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
A Republican Education	p. 3
Law over Politics	p. 37
Mr. Justice Story: Scholar at War	p. 74
Judge-made Policy and Economic Progress	p. 115
New England Conservative as Constitutional Nationalist	p. 155
The New Court and the "Last of the Old Race of Judges"	p. 196
Harvard Law School and the Salvation of the Republic	p. 237
Spreading the Word of Law: Codifier and Publicist	p. 271
Commerce, Commercial Law, and National Union	p. 305
The Crisis of Conservative Constitutionalism	p. 344
Epilogue: Statesman of the Old Republic	p. 380
Notes	p. 393
Bibliography	p. 449
Index of Cases	p. 467
Index	p. 472
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