John Marshall Harlan (eBook)

The Last Whig Justice

Loren P. Beth (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
328 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-8884-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Harlan. Known today to every student of constitutional law, principally for his dissenting opinions in early racial discrimination cases, Harlan was an important actor in every major public issue that came before the Supreme Court during his thirty-three-year tenure.Named by a hopeful father for Chief Justice John Marshall, Harlan began his career as a member of the Kentucky Whig slavocracy. Loren Beth traces the young lawyer's development from these early years through the secession crisis and Civil War, when Harlan remained loyal to the Union, both as a politician and as a soldier. As Beth demonstrates, Harlan gradually shifted during these years to an antislavery Republicanism that still emphasized his adherence to the Whig principles of Unionism and national power as against states' rights.Harlan's Supreme Court career (1877-1911) was characterized by his fundamental disagreement with nearly every judicial colleague of his day. His ultimate stanceas the Great Dissenter, the champion of civil rights, the upholder of the powers of Congressemerges as the logical outgrowth of his pre-Court life. Harlan's significance for today's reader is underlined by the Supreme Court's adoption, beginning in the 1930s, of most of his positions on the Fourteenth Amendment and the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.This fine biography is also an important contribution to constitutional history. Historians, political scientists, and legal scholars will come from its pages with renewed appreciation for one of our judicial giants.

Autor

Loren P. Beth is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Georgia and author of The Development of the American Constitution, 1877-1917.

Inhalt

Kentucky Childhood, 1833-1854
Kentucky Lawyer-Politician, 1855-1860
Kentucky Unionist, 1861
Union Soldier, 1861-1863
Into the Political Wilderness, 1868-1867
Kentucky Republican, 1868-1875
Kingmaker, 1876
The Fruits of Success, 1877
Political Reward, 1877
Associate Justice, 1877-1887
Associate Justice, 1887-1897
Associate Justice, 1897-1911
Interstate Commerce
Substantive Due Process
Criminal Procedure in the States
Civil Rights
The Income Tax
The Insular Cases
Other Issues
Man, Politician, Judge

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 21 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: civil rights judicial history • commerce clause of the constitution • constitutional due process in america • history of the u.s. judiciary • interstate commerce act • john marshall harlan biography • u.s. constitutional history • u.s. supreme court history • u.s. supreme court justices
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-8884-9 / 0813188849
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-8884-3 / 9780813188843