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Author Hall, Kermit L., 1944-2006.

Title American legal history : cases and materials / Kermit L. Hall, William M. Wiecek, Paul Finkelman.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  349.73 H177A    Check Shelf
Description xxiv, 589 pages ; 25 cm
Contents I. Law in the morning of America: the beginnings of American law, to 1760 : The English heritage : Magna Charta : Due process and the law of the land ; The glorious revolution ; The case of seven bishops (1688) -- The English bill of rights (1689) -- John Locke, "of the civil government" (1690) -- The beginnings of constitutionalism in America : The mayflower compact (1620) -- John Winthrop, "a model of Christian charity" (1629) -- Roger Williams, "the Bloudy tenant of persecution" -- The laws and liberties of Massachusetts (1648) -- The Rhode Island patent (1643) : The post-restoration charters -- The fundamental constitutions of Carolina (1669) -- William Penn, first frame of government (1682) -- The New-York charter of libertyes (1683) -- The sources of law in America : Reception of the common law -- William Blackstone on reception (1765) -- Giddings v. Brown (1657) -- The Zenger trial (1735) -- Law and colonial society : Marriage, women, and the family : William Blackstone on women in the eyes of the law (1765) -- Women and the law in the colonial era -- Children, apprenticeship, education -- Virginia apprenticeship statue (1646) -- Children's education in Plymouth (1685) -- Slavery : Slavery and race in early America -- The Germantown protest against slavery (1688) -- South Carolina slave code (1740) -- The New York "negro plot" (1741) -- White indentured servitude (1761) -- Colonial welfare systems : An act for the relief of the poor (1741) -- Colonial workfare -- Class legislation and sumptuary laws : Class and status in early America -- Democracy and deference : The incident of the Roxbury Carters (1705) -- Law and the colonial economy : The laws and liberties of Massachusetts (1648) -- The laws of South Carolina (1734) -- Early criminal law : The Salem witch trials (1692) -- Cotton Mather, the wonders of the invisible world (1683) -- II. Law in a republican revolution, 1760-1815 : The American revolution : Jonathan Mayhew, "unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers" (1750) -- Litigation and the coming of the revolution -- James Otis, "the rights of the British Colonies" (1764) -- William Blackstone on the imperial constitution (1765) -- The declaratory act (1766) -- The declaration and resolves of the continental congress (1774) -- Tom Paine, common sense (1776) -- The declaration of independence (1776) -- Republican state constitutionalism : The Virginia declaration of rights (1776) -- The people the best governors (1776) -- The Pennsylvania constitution of 1776 -- Somerset v. Stewart (1772) -- The Pennsylvania gradual abolition act (1780) -- The Virginia statute for religious freedom (1786) -- Thomas Jefferson, notes on the state of Virginia (1785) -- The northwest ordinance (1787) -- Republican national constitutionalism : The articles of confederation (1781) -- The Philadelphia convention (1787) -- The Randolph or Virginia plan -- The Paterson or small states plan -- Antifederalist critique of the constitution (1787) -- Federalist, number 10 (1787) -- Federalist, Number 78 (1788) -- The new republic : The bill of rights (1791) -- Hamilton versus Madison on presidential power (1793) -- George Washington, farewell address (1796) -- The sedition act (1798) -- The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions (1798-1799) -- Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address (1801) -- Courts and judges in the new nation : The judiciary act (1789) -- Jefferson versus Hamilton on the bank of the United States (1791) -- Calder v. Bull (1798) -- Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- III. The active state and the mixed economy, 1812-1860 : The golden age of American law : Commerce, legislative promotion, and law in the new republic : The New York steamboat monopoly and the federal commerce power : Livingston v. Van Ingen (1812) -- The mix of economics, politics, and law -- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) -- The effect of Gibbons -- The second bank of the United States : McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) -- A court opinion as political theory -- Andrew Jackson, veto message (1832) -- Jacksonian economics -- A federal common law -- Canals, internal improvements, and the states -- State constitutions and the active state : Ohio constitution (1851) -- Mississippi constitution (1817) -- Mississippi constitution (1832) -- Substantive law and economic growth : The advent of the corporation : Dartmouth college -- The politics of the Dartmouth college case -- Charles River bridge company v. Warren bridge company (1837) -- The limited liability of stockholders -- Labor in an industrializing society : The traditional theory of labor conspiracy -- Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) -- The fellow servant rule -- Farwell v. the Boston and Worcester railroad co. (1842) -- Chief justice Shaw and labor -- Fellow servants and slaves -- Property : Van Ness v. Pacard (1829) -- Eminent domain -- Parham v. the justices of Decatur county (1851) -- Barron v. Baltimore (1833) -- Joseph Angell, a treatise on the law of watercourses (1854) -- Water rights in the east -- Cary v. Daniels -- Water rights in the west -- Walter Prescott Webb, the great plains (1931) -- Irwin v. Phillips, et al. (1855) -- Law and westward migration -- The growth of contract law in the nineteenth century : Seixas and Seixas v. Woods (1804) -- MacFarland . Newman (1839) -- Icar v. Suares (1835) -- Seymour v. Delancey, et al. (1824) -- Contracts and the emerging speculative economy -- Contracts and the federal constitution -- The evolution of modern Tort law : Spencer v. Campbell (1845) -- Brown v. Kendall (1850) -- The emergence of negligence -- Toward the future -- Ryan v. New York central railroad co. (1866) -- Wrongful death and Tort law -- IV Slavery, the civil war, and reconstruction : Slavery and state law : Race and the law of negro slavery : Thomas R.R. Cobb, an inquiry into the law of negro slavery (1858) -- The power of the mast over the slave : State v. Mann (1829) -- Harriet Beecher Stowe on southern judges -- Southern v. Commonwealth (1851) -- Mitchell v. Wells (1859) -- The Somerset precedent in America -- Slavery and the constitution : The problem of fugitive slaves : Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) -- Prigg and the use of history -- Prigg and its aftermath -- Northern states'-rights arguments -- Slavery, the territories, and interstate comity : Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) -- The reaction to Dred Scott -- Abraham Lincoln, "house divided" speech (1858) -- The next Dredd Scott decision -- Secession and constitutional theory : Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina (1860) -- Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address (1861) -- The civil war and emancipation : Abraham Lincoln, the emancipation proclamation(1863) -- The effect of the emancipation proclamation -- Abraham Lincoln, second inaugural address (1865) -- Reconstruction and its aftermath: political change, black freedom, and the Nadir of black rights : Political change : Articles of impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868) -- The courts and the politics of reconstruction -- Black freedom : Mississippi black codes (1865).
An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish means of their vindication (1866) -- The civil rights act and the fourteenth amendment -- Andrew Johnson's veto of the 1866 civil rights act -- The Freedmen's bureau -- The civil rights act of 1875 -- The end of civil rights : The slaughterhouse cases (1873) -- Civil rights cases (1883) -- VI. Nineteenth-century law and society, 1800-1900 : Race : Blacks : Roberts v. the city of Boston -- Free blacks and the law -- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- Separate but equal in the north -- segregation on the eve of a new century (1898) -- Native Americans : Cherokee nation v. Georgia (1831) -- The federal government and native Americans -- Chinese : Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886) -- The Chinese and Jim Crow -- Gender and domestic relations : The rights of women : "The Seneca Falls declaration of sentiments" (1848) -- The New York married women's property acts (1848) -- Married women and the law -- Minor v. Happersett (1875) -- Domestic relations: marriage and divorce : Joel P. Bishop, "the nature of marriage and how define" -- Wrightman v. Coates (1833) -- Reynolds v. United States (1878) -- Divorce -- Waldron v. Waldron (1890) -- Birth control and abortion : State v. Slagle (1880) -- Abortion and the quickening doctrine -- People v. Sanger (1918) -- Crime and criminal justice : Crime and punishment : Cesare Beccaria, on crimes and punishments (1764) -- Charles Loring Brace, "the causes of crime" (1880) -- The police and the prison -- The excuse of crime : State v. Felter (1868) -- Insanity tests -- The south and self-defense -- Late-nineteenth-century crime and morality : Ex parte Jackson (1877) -- People v. Plath (1885) -- Prostitution in nineteenth-century America -- VII. Bench, bar and legal reform in the nineteenth century : The lawyer in American society : Lemuel Shaw on lawyering (1827) -- Alexis de Tocqueville on lawyers and judges (1835) -- P.W. Grayson, "vice unmasked, an essay: being a consideration of the influence of law upon the moral essence of man" (1830) -- Rufus Choate, "the position and functions of American bar, as an element of conservatism in the state" (1845) -- Codification : Robert Rantoul, "oration at Scituate" (1836) -- Joseph Story, "report of the commissioners to the governor of the common wealth of Massachusetts" (1837) -- David Dudley Field, "what shall be done with the practice of the courts?" (1847) -- The fate of the field codes -- The judge in American society : The elective judiciary : Charles Reemelin, statements regarding an elective judiciary (1850) -- The elective judiciary and judicial review -- William Howard Taft, veto of the Arizona enabling act (1911) -- The role of juries -- Legal education : Advertisement for the Litchfield law school (1828) -- David Hoffman, "a lecture, introductory to a course of lectures, now delivering in the university of Maryland" (1823) -- The evolution of legal education -- Formalism in legal education : Christopher C. Langdell, a selection of cases on the law of contracts (1871) -- Critics of Langdellian assumptions -- Legal theory in the late nineteenth century : Thomas M. Cooley, a treatise on the constitutional limitations of police power in the United States (1886) -- Populist platform adopted at St. Louis (1892) -- Joseph H. Choate, arguments for appellant in the income tax cases (1895) -- The income tax cases (Pollock v. Farmers' loan and trust co.) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the common law (1881) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "the path of the law" (1897) -- VIII. Industrialization and the regulatory state, 1860-1920 : State regulation and the public interest : Paternalism: child labor and maximum hours : New Jersey child labor act (1851) -- Utah smelter acts (1896) -- The repressive approach : Illinois criminal syndicalism act (1887) -- Judicial reaction to the interstate commerce commission -- The "capture" of regulatory agencies : Richard S. Olney to Charles C. Perkins, letter of December 2, 1892 -- Trustbusting: the statutory basis : Sherman anti-trust act (1890) -- The federal police power -- Judicial reaction to the regulatory state : The origins of substantive due process -- Wynehamer v. the people (1856) -- The Bradley dissent in slaughterhouse -- The slaughterhouse cases (1873) -- Reaffirmation of the police power -- Munn v. Illinois (1887) -- Substantive due process in the state courts -- In re Jacobs (1885) -- A specter haunting the courts -- Substantive due process and corporations -- The labor injunction -- Federal police power under the commerce clause -- United States v. E.C. Knight & co. (1895) -- Liberty of contract -- Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897) -- Judicial paternalism -- Holden v. Hardy (1898) -- Substantive due process in non-labor cases -- Champion v. Ames (1903) -- The apogee of substantive due process -- Lochner v. New York (1905) -- Paternalism and the female worker -- Muller v. Oregon (1908) -- The Danbury Hatters case -- Loewe v. Lawlor (1908) -- Workers' compensation and substantive due process -- Ives v. south buffalo railway co. (1911) -- Child labor -- IX. Total war, civil liberties, and civil rights : Individual rights in a changing culture : Louis D. Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren, "the right to privacy" (1890) -- World War 1 and civil liberties : The suppression of dissent during World War 1 -- Paul Murphy, World War 1 and the origins of civil liberties in the United States (1979) -- Censorship during World War 1 -- Schenck v. United States (1919) -- The Abrams dissent -- Radicals and civil liberties : Civil liberties and fourteenth amendment incorporation -- Whitney v. California (1927) -- World War 2 and legal developments : The flag salute cases : West Virginia state board of education v. Barnette (1943) -- The Japanese internment : Executive order-No. 9066 -- Hirabayashi v. United States (1943) -- Korematsu v. United States (1944) -- Ex parte endo (1994) -- Civil liberties and criminal justice in crisis times : The emergence of criminal due process : Weeks v. United States (1914) -- Olmstead v. United States (1928) -- Prohibition and the law -- Crime in the cities : Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter, criminal justice in Cleveland (1922) -- Civil rights and racial justice : Race and the franchise -- Race and education -- Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada -- Beyond Gaines -- Racial justice and criminal law -- James Harmon Chadbourne, "lynching and the administration of justice" (1933) -- Lynching and federal law -- Black rights, southern justice, and the Supreme Court -- 9. The rise of legal liberalism, economic reform, and the new deal, 1900-1945 : Sociological jurisprudence, the American law institute, and legal realism : Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "law and the court: (1913) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and judging -- Louis D. Brandeis, "brief for the defendant in error," Muller v. Oregon (1907) -- The American law institute : Elihu Root, "report of the committee" (1923) -- The American law institute and the restatements -- Legal realism : Jerome Frank, law and the modern mind (1936) -- Legal realism -- The new deal and the rise of legal liberalism : The state and federal legislative response -- The Supreme Court and the new deal : Schechter v. United States (1935) -- Unites States v. Butler (1936) -- FDR's court-packing plan : Franklin Roosevelt, fireside chat on the "court-packing" bill (1937) -- The fate of FDR's court packing-plan -- The retreat from economic substantive due process : West coast hotel v. Parrish (1937).
The decline of substantive due process -- Ordered liberty, preferred positions, and selective incorporation : Palko v. Connecticut (1937) -- Carolene products and preferred positions -- United States v. Carolene products co, (1938) -- The limits of federal judicial power : The fate of Erie -- 10. The tensions of contemporary law and society, 1945-1987 : The liberal state: private law, rights consciousness, and economic equality : The "new" property and new property rights -- Lionshead lake, Inc. v. Wayne tp. (1952) -- Zoning and entitlement -- Contract -- Williams v. Walker-Thomas furniture company (1965) -- Torts -- Greenman v. Yuba power products, Inc. (1962) -- Fassoulas v. Ramey (1984) -- No-fault insurance -- Legal liberalism and public law : Civil rights: race : Brown v. board of education of Topeka, Kansas (1854) -- "Southern declaration on integration" (1956) -- Race and the constitution -- Martin Luther King, Jr., "letter from Birmingham city jail" (1963) -- Civil rights: gender and privacy : Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) -- The debate in Griswold -- Roe v. Wade (1973) -- The future of Roe -- Civil rights: affirmative action : Civil liberties : Dennis et al. v. United States (1951) -- Free speech and internal security -- Engel et al. v. Vitale et al. (1962) -- New York times company v. United States -- United States v. Washington post company (1971) -- Rights of accused : Miranda v. Arizona (1966) -- The Supreme Court and criminal justice -- The modern presidency and separation of powers : Unites States v. Nixon (1974) -- The resignation of Richard Nixon -- The contours of modern legal culture : The law explosion and access to legal services -- Derek C. Bok, "what are American law schools doing wrong? a lot" (1983) -- Contemporary legal thought and theory : Mark Tushnet, "critical legal studies: an introduction to its origins and underpinnings" (1986) -- Richard A. Posner, "the ethical and political basis of the efficiency norm in common law education" (1980).
Pennsylvania (1842) -- Prigg and the use of history -- Prigg and its aftermath -- Northern states'-rights arguments -- Slavery, the territories, and interstate comity : Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) -- The reaction to Dred Scott -- Abraham Lincoln, "house divided" speech (1858) -- The next Dredd Scott decision -- Secession and constitutional theory : Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina (1860) -- Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address (1861) -- The civil war and emancipation : Abraham Lincoln, the emancipation proclamation(1863) -- The effect of the emancipation proclamation -- Abraham Lincoln, second inaugural address (1865) -- Reconstruction and its aftermath: political change, black freedom, and the Nadir of black rights : Political change : Articles of impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868) -- The courts and the politics of reconstruction -- Black freedom : Mississippi black codes (1865).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Law -- United States -- History.
Added Author Wiecek, William M., 1938-
Finkelman, Paul, 1949-
ISBN 0195059077
0195059085 paperback
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