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The Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney

Book by R. Kent Newmyer; Harlan Davidson, 2006

Subjects:

Marshall, John--1755-1835, Taney, Roger Brooke--1777-1864, United States--Supreme Court--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...consolidation-made the Taney Court appear un-American and...Holst hardly mention the Taney Court, except for the shame...appreciation of the Taney Court, as did Carl Brent Swishers...authoritative volume, The Taney Period, in
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Our Constitution: Tool or Testament?

Book by Beryl Harold Levy; A.A. Knopf, 1941

Subjects:

Brandeis, Louis Dembitz--1856-1941, Holmes, Oliver Wendell--1841-1935, Marshall, John--1755-1835, Taney, Roger Brooke--1777-1864, United States, United States--Supreme Court

Collections: History, Entire Library

...gander, according to Taney. The Court must equally keep...unhampered by the courts. It was not legislative...interference from the Court, whether Congress...was paramount for Taney. That is what distinguishes...two men and makes Taney so much truer a...not to run to the Court with a "constitutional...polls, not to the courts." If the people...
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Campaigns and the Court: The U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elections

Book by Donald Grier Stephenson Jr.; Columbia University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Political Campaigns--United States--History, Presidents--United States--Election--History, United States--Supreme Court--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...judiciary. Unless the Court displayed no breaks...for two decades the Taney Court managed to...contracts, 25 the Court made it clear that...states' rights-the Taney Court proved to be no more...more, Chief Justice Taney was the first to...
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The Supreme Court of the United States: A Student Companion

Book by John J. Patrick; Oxford University Press, 2001

Subjects:

United States--Supreme Court--Encyclopedias, Juvenile

Collections: History, Entire Library

...this decision, Chief Justice Taney defined a major, continuing...rights. Taneys tenure on the Court was marked by growing concerns...sharp contrast to the Marshall Courts persistent concern with establishing...supremacy over the states. The Taney Court emphasized the sovereignty...
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The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions - Vol. 1

Book by Leon Friedman, Fred L. Israel; Chelsea House, 1997

Subjects:

Judges--United States--Biography, United States--Supreme Court--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...powers or shared sovereignty. The Taney Court granted to the states much more...Republican states rights men. Thus the Taney Courts decisions bolstered the Jacksonian...misinterpretation of the nature of the Taney Court, as one which differed fundamentally...

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Journal Articles on: taney court

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The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy

Journal article by Austin Allen; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 72, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ABC-CLIO Supreme Court Handbooks series...covers the Supreme Courts major constitutional...Justice Roger B. Taney (1836-1864...serve on the Taney Court, and an analysis of the Taney Courts major rulings and...account both the Courts rulings on economic...overview of the Taney Court that is far more...
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Political Atheism: Dred Scott, Roger Brooke Taney, and Orestes a Brownson

Journal article by Patrick W. Carey; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 88, 2002

Subjects:

Brownson, Orestes Augustus (1803-76), Catholicism, History, Scott, Dred, Slavery, Supreme Court decisions, Supreme Court-US, Taney, Roger Brooke (1777-1864)

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...United States Supreme Court asking for a reversal of a District Courts decision declaring him...reargued before the Supreme Court in 1856, and, after...announced its decision. Taney delivered the opinion...consider the Supreme Courts ruling the law of the...religion. "Chief Justice Taney sits upon the bench of the Supreme Court to decide questions...
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John Mclean: Moderate Abolitionist and Supreme Court Politician

Journal article by Paul Finkelman; Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 62, 2009

Subjects:

American history, Judges & magistrates, Judicial reviews, McLean, John, Personal profiles, Slavery, Supreme Court decisions, United States

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...under the Contracts Clause.74 Taney and Justice Peter V. Daniel...McLean also departed from Taney, who increasingly chipped...states rights Jacksonians - Taney, Daniel, Samuel Nelson...McLeans position modified the Courts expansive notion of state police...local level.80 There, the Court had upheld a New York law requiring...
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The Supreme Court and the Federalist Papers: Is There Less Here Than Meets the Eye?

Journal article by Melvyn R. Durchslag; The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 14, 2005

Subjects:

Government agencies, Reading, State government, Supreme Court decisions

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...his 1985 study of the Supreme Court into the pre-Marshall, Marshall and Taney Courts, the period between 1865 and...1810 to 1835 (the Marshall Court), 1836 to 1864 (The Taney Court), 1865 to 1900 (the...
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Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857

Journal article by Michael Vorenberg; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the logic of the Courts internal, doctrinal...argues that the Taney Court was consistently...them, left the Taney Court with an understanding...assertion of the Courts supremacy. It...majority of the Taney Court believed in "self...

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Magazine Articles on: taney court

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The Real Justice Taney

Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 34, Autumn 2010

Subjects:

Judges--History, Slavery--History, Taney, Roger Brooke--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Real Justice Taney. THE SOURCE: "Roger B. Taney and the Slavery Issue: Looking Beyond--and Before...History, June 2010. WHO WAS THE REAL ROGER B. Taney? Was he the Supreme Court justice who infamously wrote, in the 1857 Dred Scott...
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Uscgc Taney: the Sole Surviving Pearl Harbor Warship

Magazine article by Blaine Taylor; Sea Classics, Vol. 42, January 2009

Collections: History, Entire Library

...United States Coast Guard Cutter Taney (pronounced TAW-NEY) was...Secretary of the Treasury and Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland, whose early law...Territorial waters, the Secreteryclass Taney was a high endurance cutter...
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The Supreme Court and the Assault on Marriage

Magazine article by Donald Demarco; Human Life Review, Vol. 30, Spring 2004

Subjects:

Abortion, Constitutional law, Marriage, Supreme Court decisions, United States

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...child. In so stating, the Court unravels marriage by creating...persons is no longer viable. The Court emphasized this point in its...child is "repugnant to this Courts present understanding of marriage...remarked that thanks to the Taney Court, the issue of slavery would...
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Roberts's Rules: In an Exclusive Interview, Chief Justice John Roberts Says That If the Supreme Court Is to Maintain Legitimacy, Its Justices Must Start Acting More like Colleagues and Less like Prima Donnas

Magazine article by Jeffrey Rosen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 299, January 2007

Subjects:

Roberts, John G., Jr.--Interviews, Supreme Court justices--Interviews, Supreme court justices--Interviews

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...thirty years, we would not have a Supreme Court today of the sort that we have," he said. "That suggests that what the Courts been doing over the past thirty years...up." Roberts added, "I think the Court is also ripe for a similar refocus on...judges willingness to "factor in the Courts institutional role" to suppress his...consensus and stability. The history of the Court confirms this insight. On the Court...
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The Courts vs. the People

Magazine article by Robert J. Bresler; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 125, March 1997

Subjects:

Judicial activism--Evaluation, Political questions and judicial power--Analysis, United States. Supreme Court--Cases

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...years ago, Chief Justice Roger Taney, in deciding Dred Scott v...to the problem of slavery. Taney concluded that Congress was...tribunal." In the end, all Taney had achieved was to hasten...powerful lesson of the mischief courts can make when they use their...for example, the Supreme Court, determined to read its own...

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Newspaper Articles on: taney court

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The Catholic Majority; Sotomayor Would Be Court's 6th

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 27, 2009

Subjects:

Catholics, Roman Catholics, Scalia, Antonin, Sotomayor, Sonia, United States. Supreme Court

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. We admire Judge Sotomayors...The Catholic majority on the court was noted even before the Sotomayor...professor criticized the high courts decision before going on to...wrote the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Center...Catholic justice, Roger B. Taney, was the chief justice of...
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High Court Focuses on Lincoln's Powers in War

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 21, 2006

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Soldiers--Powers and duties

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...later changed his mind. Taney was 84 when he wrote...Dred Scott decision. Taney died in 1864, and Salmon...had ignored Supreme Court decisions because he...and additional federal courts affirmed Taneys ruling...States, however; our courts have always actively...2006), two Supreme Court cases dealing with the...Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, while sitting as a...
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Politics Behind High Court's Nominations

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 21, 2009

Subjects:

Judges--Political activity, Judges--Political aspects, Judicial candidates--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...judicial supremacy to give the court that right through a constitutional...enforce the statute the high court rejected. The practical problems...refusing to comply with the courts decision. Witness the popular...milder proposal to rein in the court. This could create an atmosphere...influential personalities as Roger Taney, Charles Evans Hughes, Louis...
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A Test of Courage, a Reminder to Justices; (Speech Delivered at the Book Launching of "Test of Courage - Chief Justice Artemio V. Panganiban (Ret.)" by Ms. Evelyn Miranda-Feliciano, Jan. 22, 2008, Far Eastern University Auditorium, Nicanor Reyes St., Manila.)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 27, 2008

Subjects:

Scott, Dred, United States. Supreme Court, Universities and colleges

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Manila.). Byline: Supreme Court Justice ANTONIO T. CARPIO CHIEF...Marshalls successor, Chief Justice Roger Taney. Taney penned the infamous Dred Scott decision...tens of thousands of Americans. The Taney Court fell into utter disrepute...
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A Test of Courage, a Reminder to Justices; (Speech Delivered at the Book Launching of "Test of Courage - Chief Justice Artemio V. Panganiban (Ret.)" by Ms. Evelyn Miranda-Feliciano, Jan. 22, 2008, Far Eastern University Auditorium, Nicanor Reyes St., Manila.)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 28, 2008

Subjects:

Scott, Dred, United States. Supreme Court, Universities and colleges

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Manila.). Byline: Supreme Court Justice Antonio T. Carpio Chief...Marshalls successor, Chief Justice Roger Taney. Taney penned the infamous Dred Scott decision...tens of thousands of Americans. The Taney Court fell into utter disrepute...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: taney court

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Taney, Roger Brooke

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, but the following year...River Bridge Case (1837) Taney declared that a state charter...Dartmouth College Case (1819). Taney felt that the police power...fugitive slave laws , however, Taney denied to free states the power...might not sue in the federal courts, and that Congress could not...
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Supreme Court, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...diversity of citizenship. The court somewhat later decided (in...presumed federal common law. The Court under Marshall The status of the Supreme Court was somewhat uncertain until...i.e., the right of all courts to refuse the enforcement of...legislatures. The Court under Taney Under Marshalls successor...
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Supreme Court Justices

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SUPREME COURT JUSTICES (table) Supreme Court Justices (including dates on bench) Chief Justices John Jay...1795 Oliver Ellsworth 1796 1800 John Marshall 1801 35 Roger B. Taney 1836 64 Salmon P. Chase 1864 73 Morrison R. Waite 1874 88 Melville...
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White, Edward Douglass

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1894 1910), ninth Chief...judge of the Louisiana supreme court and served (1891 94) in the...Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President Cleveland. Made...first Southerner since Roger Taney to head the Supreme Court was...
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Johnson, Reverdy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...argument as counsel for the defense in the Dred Scott Case is known to have greatly influenced the Supreme Court, particularly Chief Justice Roger Taney. A Whig and then a conservative Democrat, Johnson was sympathetic with the South but was absolutely...

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