Federal justice in the Mid-Atlantic South : United States courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1836-1861 /
"The sweeping exploration in eight richly illustrated parts meticulously traces the antebellum development and performance of the federal judiciary across five judicial districts and, until 1842, three separate circuits within the bounds of the modern but historic U.S. Fourth Circuit (Maryland,...
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Durham, North Carolina :
Carolina Academic Press,
2015
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| Series: | Legal history series (Durham, N.C.)
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Table of Contents:
- Part One: Changing landscapes for federal justice ; Judges appointed and (mostly) confirmed ; Politics, vocations and avocations
- Part Two: Supporting and accommodating the judiciary. Staffing and managing courts ; Housing the courts
- Part Three: Courts at work. Maryland: courts on the Patapsco ; Eastern Virginia: along the James to the Tidewater ; Western Virginia: across valleys and mountains ; North Carolina: waning and waxing ; South Carolina: a federal presence ; Palmetto state beehive: Atlantic slave traders in the dock
- Part Four: Parsing the Constitution. Judicial powers and limits ; Affirming Congressional powers ; Demarcating executive bounds
- Part Five: Among a union of states. States - centric federalism? ; Confrontational federalism: slavery's hovering presence
- Part Six: Shepherding economic life in the age of enterprise. Courts and property creation ; Saving marine property ; Facilitating maritime commerce ; Ordering and safeguarding lives at sea ; Debtor's fresh starts gained and lost ; Sails, steam, and maritime collisions ; Safeguarding transportation systems ; A world of contracts and conveyances
- Part Seven: A not so "peaceable kingdom." Crimes, procedures and punishment ; The African connection: Atlantic slave trade ; Africans in America: flights to freedom
- Part Eight: Twilight of the Old Republic. In Maryland: courts, conventions, war ; In eastern Virginia: wary judge, peace conference, and Storm King ; In western Virginia: duty performed - hopes dashed ; In North Carolina: secessionist judge among Unionists ; In South Carolina: the Alpha and the Omega