Origins of the Dred Scott Case : Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond the Sectional Crisis -- PART I: Beneath Dred Scott: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Dimensions of Self-Rule -- ONE: Realizing Popular Sovereignty: Partisan Sentiment and Constitutional Constraint in Jacksonian Jurisprudence -- TWO: Imposing Self-Rule: Professionalism, Commerce, Social Order, and the Sources of Taney Court Jurisprudence -- THREE: Evidence of Law: Popular Sovereignty and Judicial Authority in Swift v. Tyson -- PART II: Toward Dred Scott: Slavery, Corporations, and Popular Sovereignty in the Web of Law -- FOUR: Moderating Taney: Concurrent Sovereignty and Answering the Slavery Question, 1842-1852 -- FIVE: The Limits of Judicial Partisanship: Corporate Law and the Emergence of Southern Factionalism -- SIX: The Sources of Southern Factionalism: Corporations, Free Blacks, and the Imperatives of Federal Citizenship -- PART III: Inescapable Opportunity: The Supreme Court and the Dred Scott Case -- SEVEN: The Failure of Evasion: Dred Scott v. Emerson, Strader v. Graham, Swift v. Tyson, and Dred Scott v. Sandford -- EIGHT: The Political Economy of Blackness: Citizenship, Corporations, and the Judicial Uses of Racism in Dred Scott -- NINE: Looking Westward: Concurrent Sovereignty and the Answer to the Territorial Question -- EPILOGUE: United Court, Divided Union: Judicial Harmony and the Fate of Concurrent Popular Sovereignty -- Note on Method -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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