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Author Brandwein, Pamela

Title Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages)
Series Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Abandoned Blacks?; 2 The Emergence of the Concept of State Neglect, 1867-1873; 3 The Civil/Social Distinction: An Intramural Republican Dispute; 4 The Birth of State Action Doctrine, 1874-1876; 5 A Surviving Sectional Context, 1876-1891; 6 The Civil Rights Cases and the Language of State Neglect; 7 Definitive Judicial Abandonment, 1896-1906; 8 Twentieth-Century Receptions; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights and redefines the legal transition to Jim Crow
Notes Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Abandoned Blacks?; 2 The Emergence of the Concept of State Neglect, 1867-1873; 3 The Civil/Social Distinction: An Intramural Republican Dispute; 4 The Birth of State Action Doctrine, 1874-1876; 5 A Surviving Sectional Context, 1876-1891; 6 The Civil Rights Cases and the Language of State Neglect; 7 Definitive Judicial Abandonment, 1896-1906; 8 Twentieth-Century Receptions; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Black people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- States -- History
Civil rights -- United States -- History
Civil rights -- United States -- States -- History
Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- States -- History
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Civil rights
Civil rights -- U.S. states
Discrimination -- Law and legislation
Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- U.S. states
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511859359
051185935X
1283006138
9781283006132