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The Missouri Supreme Court : from Dred Scott to Nancy Cruzan

Title: The Missouri Supreme Court : from Dred Scott to Nancy Cruzan / Gerald T. Dunne.
Author: Dunne, Gerald T.
Publication: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©1993.

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Description

xi, 222 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Examines significant landmark cases and political disputes in the history of the Missouri Supreme Court, including the Dred Scott case, and tells about some of the key judges who served on that court.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.

Contents

Beginnings. 1. Headwaters. 2. Flawed Foundations -- Growing Pains. 3. Funny Money. 4. Missouri Soil. 5. The Red and the Black -- Midcentury Transition. 6. Admiralty. 7. Field Comes to Missouri. 8. Judging the Judges. 9. Judges, Senators, and Cur Dogs -- The Great Confrontation. 10. Dred Scott. 11. Ouster by Truncheon. 12. The Recalcitrant Priest -- Discontents of Democracy. 13. Old Drum: Emblem of Reconciliation. 14. The Ladies, Judges and Progressives. 15. The Blacksmith Boss. 16. The Rube. 17. Monopoly. 18. The Commissioners. 19. The Home -- The Modern Court. 20. Missouri Jarndyce. 21. The Bitter Primary. 22. The Missouri Plan. 23. Fall of a Titan. 24. The Great Feud -- Lights and Shadows. 25. Foiling the Great Governorship "Steal" 26. Rat Alley. 27. Civil Rights -- Prospect. 28. The Assault on the Citadel. 29. Sunset and Evening Star -- Retrospective. 30. Portraits. 31. Miniatures -- Appendix: Judges and Commissioners.

ISBN

0826208266
9780826208262

LCCN

92031525

OCLC

ocm26544738
26544738
SCSB-9006864

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library