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Informationen zum Autor Carl B. Swisher (1897-1968) was Thomas P. Stran Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He wrote numerous articles and several books on constitutional history, including his authoritative biography of Andrew Jackson's chief justice, Roger B. Taney (1935); The Growth of Constitutional Power in the U.S. (1945); and Historic Decisions of the Supreme Court (1979). Klappentext The Taney Period! 1836 1864 offers a comprehensive analysis of the leading constitutional issues addressed by the United States Supreme Court during Roger B. Taney's tenure as chief justice of the Court. Zusammenfassung The Taney Period, 1836–1864 is the fifth volume of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the leading constitutional issues addressed by the United States Supreme Court during Roger B. Taney's tenure as chief justice of the Court. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The background of the Taney Court; 2. The Taney appointment; 3. Personnel of the Taney Court; 4. The first term and the Bridge Case; 5. The realm of finance; 6. Hard times and contract obligations; 7. The scope of executive power; 8. The impact of foreign affairs; 9. Politics and personnel; 10. The judges and the circuits; 11. The expanding work load; 12. The clerk and the reporter; 13. Federal courts and the common law; 14. Fringes of the codification movement; 15. The control of commerce; 16. The continuing struggle over commerce; 17. The developing pattern of the commerce power; 18. Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; 19. The rights of corporations; 20. Patent rights and free enterprise; 21. Political questions and judicial power; 22. Sectionalism and slavery; 23. Soil for slavery; 24. The Dred Scott case; 25. Aftermath of the Scott case; 26. The Booth cases and Northern nullification; 27. Fugitives from justice; 28. The widening breach; 29. The court on the eve of the war; 30. Property in land; 31. The wealth of El Dorado; 32. Lincoln's appointments to the court; 33. The war and the federal judges; 34. The blockade and the laws of war; 35. Wartime curtailment of civil rights; 36. Other problems from the war; 37. The end of the Taney regime....
