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John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Volume XIV. Baltimore, Slavery, and Constitutional History; Fourteenth Series. XI - XII. Causes of the Maryland Revolution of 1689

Author : Francis Edgar Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0649477162

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The City Government of Baltimore

Author : Thaddeus Peter Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
ISBN : 0384601871

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Diminishing the Bill of Rights

Author : William Davenport Mercer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780806158655

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The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig sued the city for damages after Baltimore’s rebuilt drainage system diverted water and sediment into the harbor, preventing large ships from tying up at Barron and Craig’s wharf. By the time the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1833, the issue had become whether the city’s actions constituted a taking of property by the state without just compensation, a violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The high court’s decision in Barron v. Baltimore marked a critical step in the rapid evolution of law and constitutional rights during the first half of the nineteenth century. Diminishing the Bill of Rights examines the backstory and context of this decision as a turning point in the development of our current conception of individual rights. Since the colonial period, Americans had viewed their rights as springing from multiple sources, including the common law, natural right, and English legal tradition. Despite this rich heritage and a prohibition grounded in the Magna Carta against uncompensated state takings of property, the Court ruled against Barron’s claim. The Bill of Rights, Chief Justice John Marshall declared in his opinion for the majority, restrained only the federal government, not the states. The Fifth Amendment, accordingly, did not apply to Maryland or any of the cities it chartered. In explaining how the Court came to reject a multisourced view of human liberties—a position seemingly inconsistent with its previous decisions—William Davenport Mercer helps explain why we now envision the Constitution as essential to guaranteeing our rights. Marshall’s view of rights in Barron, Mercer argues, helped him navigate the Court through the precarious political currents of the time. While the chief justice may have effected a shrewd political maneuver, the decision helped hasten a reconceptualization of rights as located in documents. Its legacy, as Mercer’s work makes clear, is among the Jacksonian era’s significant democratic reforms and marks the emergence of a distinctly American constitutionalism.

Irrigation in Utah

Author : Charles Hillman Brough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : HARVARD:32044053017596

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Anti-slavery Leaders of North Carolina

Author : John Spencer Bassett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : UOM:39015027021248

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Contemporary American Opinion of the French Revolution

Author : Charles Downer Hazen
Publisher : Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : France
ISBN : BML:37001103567603

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State Tax Commissions in the United States

Author : James Wilkinson Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Taxation
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019332386

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Tendencies in American Economic Thought

Author : Sidney Sherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Economics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081865131

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