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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 1B is the second 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 1B is the second part of the sixth volume of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. The second of the two parts examines specific issues that confronted the Supreme Court during this period. Inhaltsverzeichnis 14. The Legal Tender Cases; 15. Consequences of the confederacy I: confiscation, clemency, and contracts; 16. Consequences of the confederacy II: the cotton tax, and a church schism; 17. Municipal bonds I: conflict in Iowa; 18. Municipal bonds II: from 1870; 19. The Thirteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act; 20. The Civil Rights Act reconsidered, and the Fourteenth Amendment; 21. Privileges of citizens of the United States: the Slaughter House Cases; 22. The Chief Justiceship of Chase; Table of cases.
