John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court [electronic resource] : circuit riding in the old Southwest / Steven P. Brown.

"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.

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