Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic

by R. Kent Newmyer

Overview

The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican values generated by the American Revolution. Story’s greatest objective was to fashion a national jurisprudence that would carry the American people into the modern age without losing those values.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807864029
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	01/21/2004
Series:	Studies in Legal History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
Lexile:	1610L (what's this?)
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xiii
Chapter 1	A Republican Education	3
Chapter 2	Law over Politics	37
Chapter 3	Mr. Justice Story: Scholar at War	74
Chapter 4	Judge-made Policy and Economic Progress	115
Chapter 5	New England Conservative as Constitutional Nationalist	155
Chapter 6	The New Court and the "Last of the Old Race of Judges"	196
Chapter 7	Harvard Law School and the Salvation of the Republic	237
Chapter 8	Spreading the Word of Law: Codifier and Publicist	271
Chapter 9	Commerce, Commercial Law, and National Union	305
Chapter 10	The Crisis of Conservative Constitutionalism	344
	Epilogue: Statesman of the Old Republic	380
	Notes	393
	Bibliography	449
	Index of Cases	467
	Index	472