Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court, 1862-1890
Author: Charles Fairman
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 1584772670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Fairman
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 1584772670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael A. Ross
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2003-09-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780807129241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest tribunal for twenty-eight tumultuous years and holds a place in legal history as one of the Court's most influential justices. Michael A. Ross creates a colorful portrait of a passionate man grappling with the difficult legal issues arising from a time of wrenching social and political change. He also explores the impact President Lincoln's Supreme Court appointments made on American constitutional history. Best known for his opinions in cases dealing with race and the Fourteenth Amendment, particularly the 1873 Slaughter-House Cases, Miller has often been considered a misguided opponent of Reconstruction and racial equality. In this major reinterpretation, Ross argues that historians have failed to study the evolution of Miller's views during the war and explains how Miller, a former slaveholder, became a champion of African Americans' economic and political rights. He was also the staunchest supporter of the Court of Lincoln's controversial war measures, including the decision to suspend such civil liberties as habeas corpus. Although commonly portrayed as an agrarian folk hero, Miller in fact initially foresaw and embraced a future in which frontier and rivertown settlements would bloom into thriving metropolises. The optimistic vision grew from the free-labor ideology Miller brought to the Iowa Republican Party he helped found, one that celebrated ordinatry citizens' right to rise in station an driches. Disillusioned by the eventual failure of the boomtowns and repelled by the swelling coffers of eastern financiers, corporations, and robber barons, Miller became an insistent judicial voice for western Republicans embittered and marginalized in the Gilded Age. The first biography of Miller since 1939, this welcome volume draws on Miller's previously unavailable papers to shed new light on a man who saw his dreams for America shattered but whose essential political and social values, as well as his personal integrity, remained intact.
Author: Clare Cushman
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1608718328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Book Description: The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies 1789-2012, Third Edition provides a single-volume reference profiling every Supreme Court justice from John Jay through Elena Kagan. An original essay on each justice paints a vivid picture of his or her individuality as shaped by family, education, pre-Court career, and the times in which he or she lived. Each biographical essay also presents the major issues on which the justice presided. Essays are arranged in the order of the justices' appointments. Lively anecdotes along with portraits, photographs, and political cartoons enrich the text and deepen readers' understanding of the justices and of the Court. The volume includes an extensive bibliography and is indexed for easy research access. New in this edition are: a foreword by Chief Justice John G. Roberts; a revised essay on Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist; updated essays on sitting or recently retired members of the court; new biographies for Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel A. Alito, Elena Kagan, and Sonia M. Sotomayor; an updated listing of members of the Supreme Court with appointment and confirmation dates; and an updated bibliography with key sources on the Supreme Court and the justices. For insightful background and lively commentary on the individuals who have served on the Supreme Court of the United States, there is no better reference than this updated new volume. This is a vital reference work for researchers, students, and others interested in the Supreme Court's past, present, and future.
Author: Henry Julian Abraham
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780742558953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains how United States presidents select justices for the Supreme Court, evaluates the performance of each justice, and examines the influence of politics on their selection.
Author: Kermit L. Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1135691258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Available as a single volume or part of the 10 volume set Supreme Court in American Society
Author: Timothy L. Hall
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1438108176
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents an alphabetical listing of Supreme Court justices with a short biography on each person.