ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause : Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Landmark Law Cases and American Society SeriesPublisher: La Vergne : University Press of Kansas, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780700620524
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Passenger Cases and the Commerce ClauseDDC classification:
  • 342.7308/2
LOC classification:
  • KF8742 .F74 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Origins and Precedents in Law and Politics, 1819-1837 -- 2. Federal and State Court Litigations, 1837-1843 -- 3. Alien Tax Cases Appealed in Crises, 1843-1848 -- 4. Passenger Cases: Divided Decision and Opinions, 1848-1849 -- 5. Passenger Cases: Precedential Significance, 1849-1870 -- 6. Federal Supremacy and a Mixed Legacy of the Passenger Cases -- Conclusions -- Chronology -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: The tangled history of the 19th century court ruling that defined the powers of the states to control who they could and could not allow to cross their borders and its application to the current immigration debates.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Origins and Precedents in Law and Politics, 1819-1837 -- 2. Federal and State Court Litigations, 1837-1843 -- 3. Alien Tax Cases Appealed in Crises, 1843-1848 -- 4. Passenger Cases: Divided Decision and Opinions, 1848-1849 -- 5. Passenger Cases: Precedential Significance, 1849-1870 -- 6. Federal Supremacy and a Mixed Legacy of the Passenger Cases -- Conclusions -- Chronology -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index -- Back Cover.

The tangled history of the 19th century court ruling that defined the powers of the states to control who they could and could not allow to cross their borders and its application to the current immigration debates.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.