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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786338303321

Autore

Brown Steven P. <1964->

Titolo

John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court [[electronic resource] ] : circuit riding in the old Southwest / / Steven P. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8173-8626-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McKinleyJohn <1780-1852.>

Disciplina

347.73/2634092

B

Soggetti

Judges - United States

Circuit courts - Southwest, Old - History - 19th century

Politicians - Alabama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Appendix: Justice John McKinley's Supreme Court Opinions and Dissents."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley -- Logans, law, and political futility -- Alabama fever and Georgia faction -- The politics of political change -- Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington -- The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court -- The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842 -- Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852 -- The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.

Sommario/riassunto

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court  presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley  (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and  place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made  to both American legal history and Alabama.   Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculat