Lincoln and the Court / Brian McGinty.

In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, Brian McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long and undeserved neglect, recounting the compelling history of the Civil War president's relations with the nation's highest tribunal and the role...

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Main Author:	McGinty, Brian
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	United States. > Supreme Court > History > 19th century. United States. > Supreme Court > Biography. United States. > Supreme Court 1800-1899 Constitutional history > United States. LAW > Government > Federal. HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877) Constitutional history United States Electronic books. collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies.
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Table of Contents:

A solemn oath
Dred Scott
First blood
Judges and circuits
The prizes
The boom of Cannon
The old lion
A new chief
A law for rulers and people
The union is unbroken
History in marble
Afterward : The legacy.

Lincoln and the Court / Brian McGinty.

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