The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics, 1835-1864

The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics, 1835–1864 by Charles Grove Haines and Foster H. Sherwood offers the definitive study of the Taney Court and its place in the turbulent decades leading up to and including the Civil War. Originally begun by the distinguished constitutional historian Charles Grove Haines and completed after his death by his colleague Foster H. Sherwood, this volume builds on Haines’s meticulous case studies to provide a comprehensive analysis ...