American legal history : cases and materials / Kermit L. Hall, Paul Finkelman, James W. Ely, Jr.
- Author
- Hall, Kermit L., 1944-2006
- Published
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Copyright Date
- ©2011
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Physical Description
- xxviii, 713 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators
- Finkelman, Paul, 1949- and Ely, James W., 1938-
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Law in the Morning of America: The Beginnings of American Law to 1760 -- The English Heritage and Magna Charta -- Magna Charta (1215) -- Note: Due Process and the Law of the Land -- Note: The Reformation and Tudor England -- The Virginia Colony -- Dale's Laws (1611) -- The Beginnings of Constitutionalism in America -- The Mayflower Compact (1620) -- John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (1629) -- Note: Roger Williams and Religious Liberty -- Roger Williams, "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience" (1644) -- Roger Williams to the Town of Providence (1655) -- The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts (1648) -- The Rhode Island Patent (1643) -- The Maryland Toleration Act (1649) -- Note: England's Civil War -- The Post-Restoration Colonial Governments -- The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669) -- William Penn, First Frame of Government (1682) -- The New-York Charter of Libertyes (1683) -- The Glorious Revolution -- Note: The Case of the Seven Bishops (1688) -- The English Bill of Rights (1689) -- John Locke, "Second Treatise of Civil Government" (1690) -- The Sources of Law in America -- Note: Reception of the Common Law -- William Blackstone on Reception (1765) -- Giddings v. Brown (1657) -- Law and Colonial Society -- Morality and Colonial Law -- "A Horrible Case of Beastiality," Plymouth Colony (1642) -- Marriage, Women, and the Family -- William Blackstone on Women in the Eyes of the Law (1765) -- Note: Women and the Law in the Colonial Era -- An Act Concerning Feme-Sole Traders (1718) -- Widows of New York and Taxes -- Children, Apprenticeship, Education -- Virginia Apprenticeship Statute (1646) -- Children's Education in Plymouth (1685) -- White Indentured Servitude -- In re Wm. Wootton and John Bradye (1640) -- South Carolina Servant Regulations (1761) -- Slavery -- In re John Punch (1640) -- In re Emanuel (1640) -- Re Mulatto (1656) -- Re Edward Mozingo (1672) -- Moore v. Light (1673) -- Against Runnaway Servants, Act XVI (1657-1658) -- How Long Servants Without Indentures Shall Serve, Act XVIII (1657-1658) -- An Act for the Dutch and All Other Strangers for Tradeing to This Place, Act XVI (1659-1660) -- Run-aways, Act CII (1661-1662) -- Negro Womens Children to Serve According to the Condition of the Mother, Act XII (1662) -- An Act Declaring that Baptisme of Slaves Doth Not Exempt Them from Bondage, Act II (1667) -- An Act About the Casuall Killing of Slaves, Act I (1669) -- An Act for Preventing Negro Insurrections, Act X (1680) -- The Germantown Protest Against Slavery (1688) -- South Carolina Slave Code (1740) -- The New York "Negro Plot" (1741) -- Colonial Welfare Systems -- An Act for the Relief of the Poor (1742) -- Note: Colonial Workfare -- Class Legislation, Sumptuary Laws, and Social Deference -- The Incident of the Roxbury Carters (1705) -- Law and the Colonial Economy -- The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts (1648) -- The Laws of South Carolina (1734) -- Early Criminal Law -- The Salem Witch Trials (1692) -- Increase Mather, "Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men" (1692) -- Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693) -- Politics and Criminal Law: Toward a New America -- The Zenger Trial (1735) -- ch. 2 Law in a Republican Revolution 1760-1815 -- The American Revolution -- "Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers" (1750) / Jonathan Mayhew -- Note: Litigation and the Coming of the Revolution -- "The Rights of the British Colonies" (1764) / James Otis -- William Blackstone on the Imperial Constitution (1765) -- The Declaratory Act (1766) -- The Declaration and Resolves of the Continental Congress (1774) -- Common Sense (1776) / Tom Paine -- The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- Republican State Constitutionalism -- The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) -- The People the Best Governors (1776) -- Note: The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 -- Slavery and the New Nation -- Somerset v. Stewart (1772) -- The Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Act (1780) -- Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 -- Commonwealth v. Jennison (1783) -- Virginia Manumission Act (1782) -- North Carolina Statute on Slave Murder (1791) -- Thomas Jefferson on Slavery, Notes on the State of Virginia (1784) -- Religion -- The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786) -- New Hampshire Constitution (1784) -- Revolution and Law Reform -- Notes on the State of Virginia (1784) / Thomas Jefferson -- Republican National Constitutionalism -- The Articles of Confederation (1781) -- The Philadelphia Convention (1787) -- Debates Over Ratification of the Constitution -- Antifederalist Critique of the Constitution: Elbridge Gerry's Report on the Constitution as Printed in Massachusetts Centinel (1787) -- Federalist, Number 10 (1787) -- Federalist, Number 78 (1788) -- The Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- The New Republic -- The Bill of Rights -- "Property" (1792) / James Madison -- Executive Power, Civil Liberties, and the Government -- Hamilton Versus Madison on Presidential Power (1793) -- Farewell Address (1796) / George Washington -- The Sedition Act (1798) -- The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798-1799) -- Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) -- Courts, Judges, and the Powers of Congress in the new Nation -- The Judiciary Act (1789) -- Jefferson Versus Hamilton on the Bank of the United States (1791) -- Calder v. Bull (1798) -- Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- ch. 3 The Active State and the Mixed Economy 1812-1860 -- The Golden Age of American Law -- Commerce, Legislative Promotion, and Law in the New Republic -- The New York Steamboat Monopoly and the Federal Commerce Power -- Livingston v. Van Ingen (1812) -- Note: The Mix of Economics, Politics, and Law -- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) -- Note: The Effect of Gibbons -- The Second Bank of the United States -- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) -- Note: A Court Opinion as Political Theory -- Veto Message (1832) / Andrew Jackson -- Note: Jacksonian Economics -- Note: A Federal Common Law -- Note: Canals, Internal Improvements, and the States -- State Constitutions and the Active State -- Ohio Constitution (1851) -- Mississippi Constitution (1817) -- Mississippi Constitution (1832) -- Substantive Law and Economic Growth -- The Advent of the Corporation -- Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) -- Note: The Politics of the Dartmouth College Case -- Charles River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge Company (1837) -- Note: The Limited Liability of Stockholders -- Labor in an Industrializing Society -- Note: The Traditional Theory of Labor Conspiracy -- Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) -- Note: The Fellow Servant Rule -- Farwell v. The Boston and Worcester Railroad Co. (1842) -- Note: Chief Justice Shaw and Labor -- Note: Fellow Servants and Slaves -- Property -- Van Ness v. Pacard (1829) -- Note: Eminent Domain -- Parham v. The Justices of Decatur County (1851) -- Barron v. Baltimore (1833) -- Joseph Angell, A Treatise on the Law of Watercourses (1854) -- Note: Water Rights and Industrial Development in the East -- Cary v. Daniels (1844) -- Note: Water Rights in the West -- The Great Plains (1931) / Walter Prescott Webb -- Irwin v. Phillips, et al. (1855) -- Note: Law and Westward Migration -- The Growth of Contract Law in the Nineteenth Century -- Seixas and Seixas v. Woods (1804) -- McFarland v. Newman (1839) -- Icar v. Suares (1835) -- Seymour v. Delancey, et al. (1824) -- Note: Contracts and the Emerging Speculative Economy -- Note: Contracts and the Federal Constitution -- The Evolution of Modern Tort Law -- Spencer v. Campbell (1845) -- Brown v. Kendall (1850) -- Note: The Emergence of Negligence -- Note: Toward the Future -- Ryan v. New York Central Railroad Co. (1866) -- Fent et al. v. Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway Co. (1871) -- An Act to Establish the Responsibility of Railroad Corporations, Companies and Persons Owning or Operating Railroads, for Damages by Fires Communicated by Locomotive Engines (1887) -- Note: Wrongful Death and Tort Law -- ch. 4 Slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Segregation -- Slavery and State Law -- Race and the Law of Negro Slavery -- An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery (1858) / Thomas R. R. Cobb -- The Power of the Master over the Slave -- State v. Mann (1829) -- Note: Harriet Beecher Stowe on Southern Judges -- Souther v. Commonwealth (1851) -- State v. Hoover (1839) -- Mitchell v. Wells (1859) -- Note: The Somerset Precedent in America -- Slavery and the Constitution -- The Problem of Fugitive Slaves -- Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) -- Note: Prigg and the Use of History -- Note: Prigg and Its Aftermath -- Note: Northern States'-Rights Arguments -- Slavery, the Territories, and Interstate Comity -- Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) -- Note: The Reaction to Dred Scott -- Abraham Lincoln, "House Divided" Speech (1858) -- Note: The Next Dred Scott Decision -- Secession and Constitutional Theory -- South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832) -- President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification (1832) -- Nullification and Secession -- Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina (1860) -- First Inaugural Address (1861) / Abraham Lincoln -- The Civil War and Emancipation -- The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) / Abraham Lincoln -- Note: The Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation -- Second Inaugural Address (1865) / Abraham Lincoln -- Reconstruction and its Aftermath: Political Change, Black Freedom, and the Nadir of Black Rights -- Political Change -- Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868) -- Note: The Courts and the Politics of Reconstruction -- Black Freedom -- Mississippi Black Codes (1865) -- An Act to Protect All Persons in the United States in Their Civil Rights, and Furnish Means of Their Vindication (1866) -- Note: The Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Note: Andrew Johnson's Veto of the 1866 Civil Rights Act --, Contents note continued: Note: The Freedmen's Bureau -- Note: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 -- The End of Civil Rights -- The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) -- Note: The Slaughterhouse Legacy -- Note: Civil Rights Cases (1883) -- Note: Responses to the Civil Rights Cases -- Race and Segregation in Nineteenth-Century Law and Society -- Roberts v. The City of Boston (1850) -- Note: Free Blacks and the Law -- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- Note: Separate But Equal in the North -- Segregation on the Eve of a New Century (1898) -- ch. 5 Nineteenth-Century Law and Society 1800-1900 -- Race -- Native Americans -- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) -- Note: The Federal Government and Native Americans -- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903) -- Asians -- Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886) -- Note: The Chinese and Jim Crow -- Note: Chinese Exclusion -- United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) -- Note: Gentlemen's Agreement (1907) -- Oregon v. Charley Lee Quong, Ah Lee, and Lee Jong (1879) -- Latinos and Hispanics -- California ex rel. M. M. Kimberly v. Pablo de la Guerra (1870) -- Gender and Domestic Relations -- The Rights of Women -- "The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments" (1848) -- The New York Married Women's Property Acts (1848) -- Note: Married Women and the Law -- Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) -- Minor v. Happersett (1875) -- Note: The Case of United States v. Susan B. Anthony (1873) -- Marriage and Divorce -- "The Nature of Marriage and How Defined" (1881) / Joel P. Bishop -- Wightman v. Coates (1833) -- Reynolds v. United States (1879) -- Note: Divorce -- Waldron v. Waldron (1890) -- Birth Control and Abortion -- State v. Slagle (1880) -- Note: Abortion and the Quickening Doctrine -- People v. Sanger (1918) -- Crime and Criminal Justice -- Crime and Punishment -- On Crimes and Punishments (1764) / Cesare Beccaria -- "The Causes of Crime" (1880) / Charles Loring Brace -- Note: The Police and the Prison -- The Excuse of Crime -- State v. Felter (1868) -- Note: Insanity Tests -- Bill Bell v. The State (1885) -- Note: The South and Self-Defense -- Late-Nineteenth-Century Crime and Morality -- People v. Plath (1885) -- The Federal Government, Crime, and Morality -- Ex parte Jackson (1877) -- Note: Morality and Free Speech -- ch. 6 Lawyers and the Rise of the Regulatory State 1850-1920 -- The Lawyer in American Society -- Alexis de Tocqueville on Lawyers and Judges (1835) -- Legal Education -- A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts (1871) / Christopher C. Langdell -- Note: Critics of Langdellian Assumptions -- Legal Theory in the Late Nineteenth Century -- A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union (1868) / Thomas M. Cooley -- Note: Social Tension in the 1890s -- A Treatise on the Limitations of Police Power in the United States (1886) / Christopher G. Tiedemann -- The Common Law (1881) / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- "The Path of the Law" (1897) / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- The Growth of Economic Regulation -- Property Rights and Police Power -- "Protection to Private Property from Public Attack" (1891) / David J. Brewer -- State Regulation and the Public Interest -- States and Labor Law -- New Jersey Child Labor Act (1851) -- Illinois Criminal Syndicalism Act (1887) -- New York Workers' Compensation Act (1910) -- Workers' Compensation and the Question of Causation -- Ives v. South Buffalo Railway Co. (1911) -- Eminent Domain -- Colorado Constitution (1876) -- Note: The Evolution of Takings Jurisprudence -- Federal Regulation and the Public Interest -- The Interstate Commerce Commission -- Interstate Commerce Act (1887) -- Note: Judicial Reaction to the Interstate Commerce Commission -- Trust-Busting: The Statutory Basis -- Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) -- Federal Commerce Power -- United States v. E. C. Knight & Co. (1895) -- Note: Anti-Trust Law in the Progressive Era -- Populist Platform Adopted at St. Louis (1892) -- Taxation of Income -- Arguments for Appellant in the Income Tax Cases (Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co.) (1895) / Joseph H. Choate -- Judicial Reaction to the Regulatory State -- The Origins of Substantive Due Process -- Wynehamer v. The People (1856) -- Bond Repudiation and Judicial Review -- The Bradley Dissent in Slaughterhouse -- The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) -- Reaffirmation of the Police Power -- Munn v. Illinois (1877) -- Note: Federal Judicial Review of State Rate Regulations -- Substantive Due Process in the State Courts -- In re Jacobs (1885) -- Note: Substantive Due Process and Corporations -- Note: The Labor Injunction -- Federal Police Power and Labor -- In re Debs (1895) -- Note: Labor and the Law -- Liberty of Contract -- Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897) -- Liberty of Contract and Workplace Regulation -- Holden v. Hardy (1898) -- Lochner v. New York (1905) -- Muller v. Oregon (1908) -- Toward a Federal Police Power -- Champion v. Ames (1903) -- Note: The Growth of Federal Police Power -- Note: Child Labor -- ch. 7 Total War, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights -- Individual Rights in A Changing Culture -- "The Right to Privacy" (1890) / Samuel D. Warren -- World War I and Civil Liberties -- The Suppression of Dissent During World War I -- World War I and the Origins of Civil Liberties in the United States (1979) / Paul Murphy -- Censorship, Free Speech, and Opposition to World War I -- Schenck v. United States (1919) -- Note: Debs v. United States (1919) -- Abrams et al. v. United States (1919) -- Note: The Abrams Dissent -- Radicals and Civil Liberties -- Note: Civil Liberties and Fourteenth Amendment Incorporation -- Whitney v. California (1927) -- World War II and Legal Developments -- The Flag Salute Cases -- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) -- The Japanese Internment -- Note: Executive Order-No, 9066 -- Hirabayashi v. United States (1943) -- Korematsu v. United States (1944) -- Note: Ex parte Endo (1944) -- Note: The Internment Cases a Generation Later -- Civil Liberties and Criminal Justice in Crisis Times -- The Emergence of Criminal Due Process -- Weeks v. United States (1914) -- Olmstead v. United States (1928) -- Note: Prohibition and the Law -- Crime in the Cities -- Criminal Justice in Cleveland (1922) / Felix Frankfurter -- Civil Rights and Racial Justice -- Race and the Franchise -- Race and Education -- Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) -- Note: Beyond Gaines -- Racial Justice and Criminal Law -- "Lynching and the Administration of Justice" (1933) / James Harmon Chadbourn -- Note: Lynching and Federal Law -- Note: Black Rights, Southern Justice, and the Supreme Court -- ch. 8 The Rise of Legal Liberalism, Economic Reform, and the New Deal 1900-1945 -- Sociological Jurisprudence, the American Law Institute, and Legal Realism -- "Law and the Court" (1913) / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- Note: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Judging -- "Brief for the Defendant in Error," Muller v. Oregon (1907) / Louis D. Brandeis -- The American Law Institute -- "Report of the Committee," American Law Institute (1923) / Elihu Root -- Note: The American Law Institute and the Restatements -- Legal Realism -- Law and the Modern Mind (1936) / Jerome Frank -- Note: Legal Realism -- The New Deal and the Rise of Legal Liberalism -- The State and Federal Legislative Response -- The Supreme Court and the New Deal -- Schechter v. United States (1935) -- United States v. Butler (1936) -- FDR'S Court-Packing Plan -- "Fireside Chat on the `Court-Packing' Bill" (1937) / Franklin Roosevelt -- Note: The Fate of FDR's Court-Packing Plan -- The Retreat From Economic Substantive Due Process -- West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937) -- Note: The Decline of Substantive Due Process -- Ordered Liberty, Preferred Positions, and Selective Incorporation -- Palko v. Connecticut (1937) -- Note: Carolene Products and Preferred Positions -- Footnote 4: United States v. Carolene Products Co. (1938) -- The Limits of Federal Judicial Power -- Note: The Fate of Erie -- ch. 9 Rights, Liberty, and Science in Modern America -- Civil Rights -- Race -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) -- "Southern Declaration on Integration" (1956) -- Note: Race and the Constitution -- "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" (1963) / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Affirmative Action -- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) -- Note: The Future of Affirmative Action in Education -- City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Company (1989) -- Note: The Aftermath of Croson -- Gender -- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) -- Note: The Debate in Griswold -- Roe v. Wade (1973) -- Note: The Future of Roe -- Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County (1987) -- Note: Affirmative Action and Sexual Harassment -- Sexual Orientation -- Romer v. Evans (1996) -- Same-Sex Marriages -- Baker v. State (1999) -- Vermont Civil Union Act (2000) -- Defense of Marriage Act -- Note: Transgender Persons and the Law -- Civil Liberties -- Freedom of Speech and Press -- Dennis et al. v. United States (1951) -- Note: Free Speech and Internal Security -- New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) -- Note: Offensive Speech -- Religious Freedom and Separation of Church and State -- Engel v. Vitale (1962) -- Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990) -- Note: Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 -- Criminal Justice -- Miranda v. Arizona (1966) -- Note: The Supreme Court and Criminal Justice -- Note: Surge in Incarceration -- Science and Law -- Definition of Death -- In re Quinlan (1976) -- Note: Right to Die -- Surrogate Parenting -- In re Baby M (1988) -- The Challenge of DNA -- Science and Environmental Law -- TVA v. Hill (1978) -- Note: The Fate of Hill -- Cyberspace -- Intel v. Hamidi (2003) -- ch. 10 Law and the Economy in Modern America -- Regulatory State -- Deregulation -- The Staggers Act (1980) -- The Contours of Environmental Regulation --, and Contents note continued: "Ideal Versus Real Regulatory Efficiency: Implementation of Uniform Standards and `Fine-Tuning' Regulatory Reforms" (1985) / Howard Latin -- "Reforming Environmental Law" (1985) / Richard B. Stewart -- Executive Order-No. 12866 (1993) / William J. Clinton -- Anti-Trust Policy -- Economic Activity -- Contract -- Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Company (1965) -- Torts -- Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc. (1962) -- Fassoulas v. Ramey (1984) -- Note: Legislative Reform of the Tort System -- BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore (1996) -- Note: Beyond Gore -- Note: Tobacco Litigation -- Property -- Lionshead Lake, Inc. v. Wayne Tp. (1952) -- Note: Zoning -- Eminent Domain -- Kelo v. City of New London (2005) -- Note: Post-Kelo Developments -- Regulatory Takings -- Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992) -- Residential Leases -- Javins v. First National Realty Corporation (1970) -- Entitlements and "New Property" -- New Federalism -- United States v. Lopez (1995) -- Note: New Directions in Commerce Clause Jurisprudence -- Printz v. United States (1997) -- ch. 11 Law, Politics, and Terror -- The Modern Presidency and Separation of Powers -- New York Times Company v. United States; United States v. Washington Post Company (1971) -- Note: The Modern Presidency -- United States v. Nixon (1974) -- Note: The Resignation of Richard Nixon -- The Impeachment of Bill Clinton -- House Committee on the Judiciary, Resolutions of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors (1998) -- Note: The Senate Vote on President Clinton -- Political Questions, the Presidential Election of 2000, and the Supreme Court -- Bush v. Gore (2000) -- Note: The Supreme Court and the Political Process -- President-Elect George W. Bush Addresses the Nation (2000) -- Terror, Liberty, and the Presidency -- Note: The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 -- The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001, H.R. 3162, Section-by-Section Analysis -- The USA PATRIOT ACT: For and Against -- The USA PATRIOT ACT: Preserving Life and Liberty (2004) -- American Civil Liberties Union, "The USA PATRIOT ACT and Government Actions That Threaten Our Civil Liberties" (2004) -- "The Policies of War: Refocus the Mission" (2003) / Newt Gingrich -- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002) -- Note: Homeland Security Act -- Lakhdar Boumediene v. George W. Bush, President of the United States (2008).
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- 9780195395426 (pbk.)
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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