Sunflower Justice: A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court

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Notes Preface 1. Francis H. Heller, “Lawyers and Judges in Early Kansas: A Prospect for Research,” University of Kansas Law Review 22 (Winter 1974): 217–18. The point that the state courts affect our everyday lives comes from James W. Hewitt, Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007), 1. 2. Heller, “Lawyers and Judges,” 217–18. 3. Michael H. Hoeflich, “Why the History of Kansas Law Has Not Been Written ,” Kansas History 26 (Winter 2003–4): 264–71. 4. James Willard Hurst, “Old and New Dimensions of Research in United States Legal History,” American Journal of Legal History 23 (January 1979): 20; Morton J. Horowitz, “The Conservative Tradition in the Writing of American Legal History,” American Journal of Legal History 17 (July 1973): 281. 5. Daniel R. Ernst, “Law and American Political Development, 1877–1938,” Reviews in American History 26 (March 1998): 208. 6. Lord Bryce quoted in Ernst, “Law and American Political Development,” 212. Introduction 1. See Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004), 12, for a description of this sectional balance. 2. Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas, 100–102, 122. 3. Howard v. Kansas City Railroad, 41 Kan. 402 (1889), 19 How. 393. 4. Kenneth M. Stampp, America in 1857 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 328–29. For the vote on the Lecompton Constitution, see G. Raymond Gaddert, The Birth of Kansas (Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1940), 77. 5. Ernst, “Law and American Political Development,” 223–24. 6. The president subsequently acquired this appointive power, and, as Peter S. Onuf notes, the president “through his appointive governor controlled territorial development ” (Statehood and Union [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987], 78). For the secession crisis and last-minute attempts to resolve it, see R. Alton Lee, “The 342 Notes to pages 5–15 Corwin Amendment in the Secession Crisis,” Ohio Historical Quarterly 70 (January 1961). For the six governors, see Arthur J. Stanley, Jr., “Lawyers in Politics,” in Requisite Learning and Good Moral Character: A History of the Kansas Bench and Bar, ed. Robert W. Richmond (Topeka: Kansas Bar Association, 1982), 76–77. 7. “Executive Minutes of Governor John W. Geary,” in Kansas Historical Collections (Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1886–88), 4:602–3. 8. T. M. Lillard, “Beginnings of the Kansas Judiciary,” Kansas Historical Quarterly 10 (February 1941): 96–97. For “agent nor attorney,” see James Durham, “U.S. v. Lewis L. Weld: Judiciary Creativity or Judicial Subversion,” Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 56 (1986): 8–11, an interesting account of this case. 9. James K. Logan, “The Federal Courts and Their Judges—the Impact on History ,” in The Law and Lawyers in Kansas: A Collection of Papers Presented at the 116th Annual Meeting of the Kansas State Historical Society, October 4 & 5, 1991, ed. Virgil W. Dean (Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1991), 59–60. 10. Logan, “The Federal Courts,” 61–62. 11. Paul E. Wilson, “The Early Years: The Bench and Bar before 1882,” in Richmond , Requisite Learning, 32–35. 12. Ernst, “Law and American Political Development,” 137; “last straw” quote from Stampp, America in 1857, 155. 13. Stampp, America in 1857, 154, 188. 14. Martha B. Caldwell, “When Horace Greeley Visited Kansas in 1859,” Kansas Historical Quarterly 9 (May 1940): 115–27; see Stampp, America in 1859, 23, for “famine horse.” 15. John A. Martin, “The Wyandotte Constitutional Convention,” Kansas Magazine 5 (1911): 23–25. 16. Matthew H. Raney, “The Early Political and Military Career of Governor John Alexander Martin” (M.A. thesis, Kansas State University, 1991). Peter Cozzens, This Terrible Sound (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), is excellent on these battles and Martin’s role in them. 17. Stampp, America in 1859, 29. 18. Article iii, Kansas Constitution. 19. Freedom’s Champion, 24 September 1859. 20. Stampp, America in 1859, 27–29. 1.The Kingman Court 1. Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas, 240–42. 2. Lillard, “Beginnings,” 98; Gaddert, The Birth of Kansas, 125. 3. Edwin A. Austin, “The Supreme Court of the State of Kansas,” Kansas State Historical Society Proceedings 13 (1913): 95. Notes to pages 15–26 343 4. Mary Scott Rowland, “Thomas Ewing: The Reluctant Chief Justice,” Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 57 (February 1988): 31–32. 5. Wilson, “The Early Years,” 38; Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas, 240–41; David McCullough , Truman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 32. 6. Joseph G. Waters, “Samuel A. Kingman,” Kansas State Historical Society Proceedings...