Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857

Contents

[-7], Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Beyond the Sectional Crisis 1 part i Beneath Dred Scott: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Dimensions of Self-Rule 9 one Realizing Popular Sovereignty: Partisan Sentiment and Constitutional Constraint in Jacksonian Jurisprudence 13 two Imposing Self-Rule: Professionalism, Commerce, Social Order, and the Sources of Taney Court Jurisprudence 36 three Evidence of Law: Popular Sovereignty and Judicial Authority in Swift v. Tyson 52 part ii Toward Dred Scott: Slavery, Corporations, and Popular Sovereignty in the Web of Law 69 four Moderating Taney: Concurrent Sovereignty and Answering the Slavery Question, 1842–1852 75 five The Limits of Judicial Partisanship: Corporate Law and the Emergence of Southern Factionalism 98 six The Sources of Southern Factionalism: Corporations, Free Blacks, and the Imperatives of Federal Citizenship 116 part iii Inescapable Opportunity: The Supreme Court and the Dred Scott Case 133 seven The Failure of Evasion: Dred Scott v. Emerson, Strader v. Graham, Swift v. Tyson, and Dred Scott v. Sandford 139 viii contents 1 [-8], eight The Political Economy of Blackness: Citizenship, Corporations, and the Judicial Uses of Racism in Dred Scott 160 nine Looking Westward: Concurrent Sovereignty and the Answer to the Territorial Question 178 epilogue United Court, Divided Union: Judicial Harmony and the Fate of Concurrent Popular Sovereignty 203 Note on Method 221 Notes 229 Bibliography 253 Index 267 ...