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Informationen zum Autor Charles Fairman (1897-1988) was Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School. He was the author of numerous articles and books, including The Law of Martial Rule (1930), and Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court (1939). In 1948 he published his casebook, American Constitutional Decisions; and a year later, he published his classic article, 'Does the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Bill of Rights?' Klappentext Reconstruction and Reunion! 1864 1888! Part 1A is the first part of the sixth volume of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Zusammenfassung Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864–1888, Part 1A is the first part of the sixth volume of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. The first of the two volumes is devoted to judicial politics and the internal history of the Court during the politically and constitutionally turbulent Reconstruction period. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Chief Justice Chase; 2. The work of the Supreme Court; 3. Reconstruction - by Lincoln and by Johnson; 4. December term 1865: the current quickens; 5. The Milligan and Test Oath cases; 6. Congressional reconstruction: legislation - the Act of March 2, 1867; 7. Supplementary legislation; reflections; 8. The Court and congressional reconstruction: March to May 1867; 9. The background of further litigation; 10. Ex parte McCardle and Georgia v. Grant, Meade et al.; 11. Chief Justice Chase and the presidency, 1868; 12. Ex parte Yerger, and the close of congressional reconstruction; 13. A union of 'indestructible states': Virginia v. West Virginia and Texas v. White.
