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  1. [ 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…

  2. Legal historian Paul Finkelman discusses his book Supreme Injustice, which highlights the three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil War—John Marshall, Roger B. Taney, and...

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  3. 3. Dez. 2018 · [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… Finkelman insists that the legacy of Marshall, Story, and Taney had enormous implications…strengthening the ...

  4. 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).

  5. 8. Jan. 2018 · Finkelman situates this infamous holding within a solid record of support for slavery and hostility to free blacks.Supreme Injustice boldly documents the entanglements that alienated three...

  6. 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.

  7. This book explores the slavery jurisprudence of the three most important justices on the antebellum Supreme Court—Chief Justice John Marshall, Associate Justice Joseph Story, and Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney. All three believed that slavery—or more precisely, opposition to slavery—threatened national unity and political stability.