Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-107-62591-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution

American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional wisdom - and puts a constructive alternative in its place. Pamela Brandwein unveils 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. She shows that the Supreme Court supported a Republican coalition and left open ample room for executive and legislative action. Blacks were abandoned, but by the president and Congress, not the Court. Brandwein unites close legal reading of judicial opinions (some hitherto unknown), sustained historical work, the study of political institutions, and the sociology of knowledge. This book explodes tired old debates and will provoke new ones.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brandwein, Pamela

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Brandwein, Pamela
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.