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Pages : 1046
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House documents
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Pages : 1046
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History of McHenry County, Illinois
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Category : McHenry County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Pages : 640
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To Promote the Welfare of American Seamen
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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Category : Merchant mariners
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category : Merchant mariners
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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... Thurston Genealogies
Author: Brown Thurston
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Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Pages : 666
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Annual Report of the Officers of the Town
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Pages : 520
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Pages : 520
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History of Maryborough and Wide Bay and Burnett Districts
Author: George E. Loyau
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Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Pages : 436
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The Representative Men of South Australia
Author: George E. Loyau
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The Great Yazoo Lands Sale
Author: Charles F. Hobson
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700623310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the state's western lands (present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to four private land companies. A year later, amid revelations of bribery, a newly elected legislature revoked the sale. This book tells the story of how the great Yazoo lands sale gave rise to the 1810 case in which the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Marshall, for the first time ruled the action of a state to be in violation of the Constitution, specifically the contract clause. Truly a landmark case, Fletcher v. Peck established judicial review of state legislative proceedings, provided a gloss on the contract clause, and established the preeminent role of the Supreme Court in private law matters. Beneath the case’s dry legal proceedings lay a tangle of speculating mania, corruption, and political rivalry, which Charles Hobson unravels with narrative aplomb. As the scene shifts from the frontier to the courtroom, and from Georgia to New England, the cast of characters includes sharp dealers like Robert Morris, hot- headed politicians like James Jackson, and able counsel like John Quincy Adams, along with, of course, John Marshall himself. The improbably dramatic tale opens a window on land transactions, Indian relations, and the politics of the early nation, thereby revealing how the controversy over the Yazoo lands sale reflected a deeper crisis over the meaning of republicanism. Hobson, a leading scholar of the Marshall Court, lays out the details of the litigation with great clarity even as he presents a longer view of the implications and consequences of Fletcher v. Peck.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700623310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the state's western lands (present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to four private land companies. A year later, amid revelations of bribery, a newly elected legislature revoked the sale. This book tells the story of how the great Yazoo lands sale gave rise to the 1810 case in which the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Marshall, for the first time ruled the action of a state to be in violation of the Constitution, specifically the contract clause. Truly a landmark case, Fletcher v. Peck established judicial review of state legislative proceedings, provided a gloss on the contract clause, and established the preeminent role of the Supreme Court in private law matters. Beneath the case’s dry legal proceedings lay a tangle of speculating mania, corruption, and political rivalry, which Charles Hobson unravels with narrative aplomb. As the scene shifts from the frontier to the courtroom, and from Georgia to New England, the cast of characters includes sharp dealers like Robert Morris, hot- headed politicians like James Jackson, and able counsel like John Quincy Adams, along with, of course, John Marshall himself. The improbably dramatic tale opens a window on land transactions, Indian relations, and the politics of the early nation, thereby revealing how the controversy over the Yazoo lands sale reflected a deeper crisis over the meaning of republicanism. Hobson, a leading scholar of the Marshall Court, lays out the details of the litigation with great clarity even as he presents a longer view of the implications and consequences of Fletcher v. Peck.
Public Property and Private Power
Author: Hendrik Hartog
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801495601
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801495601
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Politics, Science, and Dread Disease
Author: Stephen P. Strickland
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ISBN: 9780674594883
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
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ISBN: 9780674594883
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Pages : 348
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