The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888–1910Univ of South Carolina Press, 2012 M11 1 - 257 pages A study of the man who led the Supreme Court as the nineteenth century ended and the twentieth began, exploring issues of property, government authority, and more. |
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... Amendment to the federal constitution , a provision that prohibited interference with slavery by the federal government . Moreover , to many Democrats the Emancipation Proclamation was a particularly sensitive issue . They believed ...
... amendments in the proper spirit. “How long will the results of the Civil War be safe if the President may fill up the Supreme Court with disloyalists,” he asked.71 Senator William M. Evarts of New York covered much of the same ground ...
... Amendment to protect private property from state regulation . Field was the most influential justice during the Gilded Age , and his property- conscious views gained ascendancy during Fuller's chief justiceship.3 Also cantankerous and ...
... Amendment , the workload of the Court increased steadily during the Gilded Age . Most cases reached the Supreme Court on a writ of error that was available to all litigants whose suits came within the Court's appellate jurisdiction ...
... Amendment. This changed with Fuller in the center chair. Somewhat overshadowed by more prominent colleagues, Fuller successfully harnessed their talents and guided the Court to a more activist role in American life. In retrospect it can ...
Contents
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Conservative Jurisprudence in the Age of Enterprise | |
Safeguarding Entrepreneurial Liberty | |
Defending the National Market | |
Civil Liberties Equal Rights and Criminal Justice | |
Issues of Government | |
Private Litigation | |
Betting on the Future | |