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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828197503321

Autore

Kaczorowski Robert J

Titolo

The politics of judicial interpretation : 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)

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.

Sommario/riassunto

GShould be required reading . . . for all historians, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, and government officials who in one way or another are responsible for understanding and interpreting our civil rights past.GGHarold M. Hyman, Journal of Southern History.