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John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court

Brown, Steven Preston.

John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court circuit riding in the old Southwest / [electronic resource] : Steven P. Brown. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

"Appendix: Justice John McKinley's Supreme Court Opinions and Dissents."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley -- Logans, law, and political futility -- Alabama fever and Georgia faction -- The politics of political change -- Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington -- The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court -- The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842 -- Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852 -- The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.

9780817386269


McKinley, John, 1780-1852


United States. Supreme Court --Biography.


Politicians--Alabama--Biography.
Circuit courts--History--Southwest, Old--19th century.
Judges--United States--Biography.


Electronic books.

KF8745.M38 / B76 2012

347.73/2634092 B