Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-266) and index.
Contents:
Realizing popular sovereignty : partisan sentiment and constitutional constraint in Jacksonian jurisprudence -- Imposing self-rule : professionalism, commerce, social order, and the sources of Taney court jurisprudence -- Evidence of law : popular sovereignty and judicial authority in Swift v. Tyson -- Moderating Taney : concurrent sovereignty and answering the slavery question, 1842-1852 -- The limits of judicial partisanship : corporate law and the emergence of southern factionalism -- The sources of southern factionalism : corporations, free blacks, and the imperatives of federal citizenship -- The failure of evasion : Dred Scott v. Emerson, Strader v. Graham, Swift v. Tyson, and Dred Scott v. Sandford -- The political economy of blackness : citizenship, corporations, and the judicial uses of racism in Dred Scott -- Looking westward : concurrent sovereignty and the answer to the territorial question.
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