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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462324403321

Autore

Kaczorowski Robert J

Titolo

The politics of judicial interpretation [[electronic resource] ] : the federal courts, Department of Justice, and civil rights, 1866-1876 / / Robert J. Kaczorowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-8232-4836-4

Edizione

[1st Fordham University Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Reconstructing America (Series), , 1523-4606 ; ; no. 9

Disciplina

342.7308/73

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century

Judicial review - United States - History - 19th century

Political questions and judicial power - United States - History - 19th century

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Judicial interpretations of national civil rights enforcement authority, 1866-1873 -- The Freedmen's Bureau and civil rights enforcement, 1866-1868 -- The politics of civil rights enforcement in the federal courts, 1866-1873 -- The Department of Justice and civil rights enforcement, 1870-1871 -- The Department of Justice and the retreat from civil rights enforcement, 1872-1873 -- The judicial administration of civil rights enforcement, 1870-1872 -- The Supreme Court as legislature : the judicial retreat from civil rights enforcement -- The judicial curtailment of civil rights enforcement, 1874-1875 -- The reinstitution of decentralized constitutionalism : the Supreme Court and civil rights, 1876.