Lincoln's Supreme Court

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University of Illinois Press, 1998 - 272 頁
Decades after its initial publication, Lincoln's Supreme Court remains the only book to focus exclusively on Abraham Lincoln's role in modifying the Supreme Court to secure the power he needed to save the Union.
 

內容

PATTERN FOR CONFLICT
1
INHERITED COURT
14
DECLARATIONS OF DEFIANCE
25
DISASTER STALKS
42
QUORUM AND MARKED SEAT
57
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
70
A PACKED COURT
83
TANEY AND HIS BRETHREN
94
OTHER BATTLES IN ERMINE
143
BUSINESS AS USUAL
156
DUALROLE JUSTICES
167
AVALANCHE OF AMBITION
185
REWARD FOR REALITY
197
THE COURT UNDER CHASE
210
TANEY ABSOLVED
223
APPENDIX
237

THEIR GRAVEST DECISION
104
MALICE AFORETHOUGHT
119
THREATS AND THREATS AGAIN
131
BIBLIOGRAPHY
241
INDEX
251
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關於作者 (1998)

David M. Silver is a professor emeritus of history and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University.

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