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In Supreme Injustice, the distinguished legal historian Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice’s proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the incentives created by circumstances in his private life.
3. Dez. 2018 · Allen Mendenhall: [ Supreme Injustice] tells the story of three United States Supreme Court Justices…and their ‘slavery jurisprudence.’. Each of these men, Finkelman argues…shared the belief that antislavery agitation undermined the legal and political structures instituted by the Constitution…
29. Okt. 2018 · In Supreme Injustice, the prolific Paul Finkelman takes on the three most important Supreme Court justices of the antebellum era: John Marshall, Joseph Story, and Roger B. Taney. When questions regarding slavery came before them, all three justices “invariably voted against liberty and in favor of slavery” (25).
In Supreme Injustice, the distinguished legal historian Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice’s proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to Black freedom, and the incentives created by circumstances in his private life.
3. Dez. 2018 · In ruling after ruling, the three most important pre–Civil War justices—Marshall, Taney, and Story—upheld slavery. Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice’s proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the personal incentives that embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.
Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 is a book by Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's 5–4 majority decision as partisan in Bush v. Gore, which ended the Florida election recount .
Supreme Injustice is part of a necessary and ongoing reconsidera-tion of these and other pre-Civil War jurists’ contributions to slavery law, which is an essential component of an understanding of slavery’s place in the nation’s legal, social, economic, political, intellectual, and religious history.
