Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction

Informationen zum Autor Pamela Brandwein is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth. Klappentext Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights and redefines the legal transition to Jim Crow. Zusammenfassung Unveiling a lost jurisprudence of rights that provided expansive possibilities for protecting blacks' physical safety and electoral participation even as it left public accommodation rights undefended! Pamela Brandwein offers a path-breaking analysis that will be of interest to constitutional scholars! legal historians and scholars of race and American political development. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The emergence of the concept of state neglect, 1867-73; 3. The civil/social distinction: an intramural Republican debate; 4. The birth of state action doctrine, 1874-6; 5. A surviving sectional context, 1876-91; 6. The Civil Rights Cases and the language of state neglect; 7. Definitive judicial abandonment and residual expressions, 1896-1909; 8. A loss of context: the rise of distorted knowledge about state action doctrine; 9. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela Brandwein, Pamela (University of Michigan Brandwein, Brandwein Pamela
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521887717
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88771-7
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional and administrative law: general