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Title

Justice accused : antislavery and the judicial process / Robert M. Cover.

Author

Cover, Robert M.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1975.

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Description

xii, 322 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

What should a judge do when he must hand down a ruling based on a law that he considers unjust or oppressive? This question is examined through a series of problems concerning unjust law that arose with respect to slavery in nineteenth-century America.

Subject

• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Geschichte 1760-1860
• Natural law
• Judicial process > United States > History
• Slavery > History > United States
• Ethics

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prelude : of creon and Captain Vere -- 1. The intellectual tradition : slavery, natural law, and judicial positivism in the eighteenth century -- Pt. 1: Nature tamed -- 2. Natural right in legislation -- 3. Judicial construction of a natural law text : the "free and equal" clauses -- 4. Statutory interpretation : In favorem libertatis? -- Conflict of laws -- Perspectives from international law -- Pt. 2: Rules, roles, and rebels : nature's place disputed -- 7. Some paradigms of judicial rhetoric -- 8. Formal assumptions of the judiciary -- 9. Formal assumptions of the antislavery forces -- 10. Positivism established : the Fugitive Slave Law to 1850 -- 11. Positivism and crisis : the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1859 -- Pt. 3: The moral-formal dilemma -- 12. Context for conscience -- 13. Judicial responses.

ISBN

0300017898 :

LCCN

^^^74019573^//r87

OCLC

• 1322135
• SCSB-10226069

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library