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Informationen zum Autor R. Kent Newmyer is Distinguished Alumni Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Connecticut, and Professor of Law and History at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he teaches courses in American constitutional and legal history. His teaching and research specialty is the legal and political history of the early republic. His judicial biography, Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic (1985), received the Littleton-Griswold Award from the American Historical Association for the best book on law and society for 1985; a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association; and the Benchmark Book Award for 1985-86 in recognition of its contribution to legal history and the role of the judiciary. His most recent work, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (2001), received the Jules and Frances Landry Award from LSU Press and was the winner of the Fifth Annual Library of Virginia Award for the best nonfiction book for 2002. Zusammenfassung In preparing the long-awaited second edition of his well-liked text! Kent Newmyer consulted the best and most relevant of the recent scholarship on the antebellum Court! prompting him to revise important points in the story of the Court's evolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword vii Preface and Acknowledgments xi Chapter One. The Framework of Judicial Statesmanship 1 Limitations on Judicial Lawmaking 6 The Potential of Judicial Statesmanship 10 The Court and The Men and Women on It 16 Chapter Two. John Marshall and the Consolidation of National Power 18 The Struggle for Judicial Power: Marbury v. Madison 22 Consolidating National Power 39 A Philosophy of National Power 52 Chapter Three. Capitalism and the Marshall Court: Judicial Review in Action 55 The Marshall Court, State Power, and Agrarian Capitalism 59 The Court and the Rise of the American Business Corporation 70 Retreat under Fire 79 Chapter Four. The Taney Court: Democracy Captures the Citadel 89 King Andrew's Court 92 Corporations and The Court: The New Look 94 The Taney Court and The Commerce Clause 101 Continuity Versus Change: The Haunting Presence of John Marshall 108 The Case for Judicial Statesmanship 113 Chapter Five. The Court's Time of Troubles: Slavery, Sectionalism, and War 118 The Court and Slavery 122 The Fugitive Slave Question 123 Slavery in the Territories 127 Enter Dred Scott 131 Pitfalls of Judicial Discretion 138 The War Years: The Court Survives 142 Chapter Six. The Legacy of the Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney 146 Bibliographical Essay 153 Glossary of Legal Terms 170 The Supreme Court, 1801-1864 172 Index of Cases 176 Index 179 Illustrations follow page 88 ...
