Distinguishing The Righteous From The Roguish

Author : J.W. Looney
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610755900

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Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish by J.W. Looney Pdf

During the period from 1836 to 1874, the legal system in the new state of Arkansas developed amid huge social change. While the legislature could, and did, determine what issues were considered of importance to the populace, the Arkansas Supreme Court determined the efficacy of legislation in cases involving land titles, banks, transportation, slavery, family law, property, debt, contract, criminal law, and procedure. Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish examines the court’s decisions in this era and shows how Arkansas, as a rural slave-holding state, did not follow the transformational patterns typical of some other states during the nineteenth century. Rather than using the law to promote broad economic growth and encourage social change, the Arkansas court attempted to accommodate the interests of the elite class by preserving the institution of slavery. The ideology of paternalism is reflected in the decisions of the court, and Looney shows how social and political stability—an emphasis on preserving the status quo of the so-called “righteous”—came at the expense of broader economic development.

Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190070915

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A History of American Law by Lawrence M. Friedman Pdf

Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day. This fully revised fourth edition incorporates the latest research to bring this classic work into the twenty-first century. In addition to looking closely at timely issues like race relations, the book covers the changing configurations of commercial law, criminal law, family law, and the law of property. Friedman furthermore interrogates the vicissitudes of the legal profession and legal education. The underlying theory of this eminently readable book is that the law is the product of society. In this way, we can view the history of the legal system through a sociological prism as it has evolved over the years.

Author : Jeannie M. Whayne,Thomas A. DeBlack,George Sabo,Morris S. Arnold
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610756617

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Arkansas by Jeannie M. Whayne,Thomas A. DeBlack,George Sabo,Morris S. Arnold Pdf

Distilled from Arkansas: A Narrative History, the definitive work on the subject since its original publication in 2002, Arkansas: A Concise History is a succinct one-volume history of the state from the prehistory period to the present. Featuring four historians, each bringing his or her expertise to a range of topics, this volume introduces readers to the major issues that have confronted the state and traces the evolution of those issues across time. After a brief review of Arkansas’s natural history, readers will learn about the state’s native populations before exploring the colonial and plantation eras, early statehood, Arkansas’s entry into and role in the Civil War, and significant moments in national and global history, including Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, the Elaine race massacre, the Great Depression, both world wars, and the Civil Rights Movement. Linking these events together, Arkansas: A Concise History offers both an understanding of the state’s history and a perspective on that history’s implications for the political, economic, and social realities of today.

Author : S. Charles Bolton
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610756693

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Fugitivism by S. Charles Bolton Pdf

Winner, 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis. Those who ended up in Louisiana found themselves in an environment of swamplands, sugar plantations, French-speaking creoles, and the exotic metropolis of New Orleans. Those sold to planters in the newly-opened Mississippi Delta cleared land and cultivated cotton for owners who had moved west to get rich as quickly as possible, driving this labor force to harsh extremes. Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or religious meetings, sometimes “laying out” nearby for a few days or weeks. Some of them fled to New Orleans and other southern cities where they could find refuge in the subculture of slaves and free blacks living there, and a few attempted to live permanently free in the swamps and forests of the surrounding area. Fugitives also tried to returnto eastern slave states to rejoin families from whom they had been separated. Some sought freedom on the northern side of the Ohio River; othersfled to Mexico for the same purpose. Fugitivism provides a wealth of new information taken from advertisements, newspaper accounts, and court records. It explains how escapees made use of steamboat transportation, how urban runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved people were victimized by slave stealers, how conflicts between black fugitives and the white people who tried to capture them encouraged a culture of violence in the South, and how runaway slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the abolitionist movement in the North. Readers will discover that along with an end to oppression, freedom-seeking slaves wanted the same opportunities afforded to most Americans.

Author : John Cerullo,David C. Steelman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781498565905

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The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock by John Cerullo,David C. Steelman Pdf

At this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought state-level political struggles involve control of state supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000, but the issues raised by the case are hardly confined to New Hampshire. They involved the proper nature and operation of judicial independence within a “populist” civic culture that had long assumed the primacy of the legislative branch, extolled its “citizen legislators” over insulated and professionalized elites, and entrusted those legislators to properly supervise the judiciary. In the last few decades of the 20th Century, New Hampshire’s judiciary had been substantially reconfigured: constitutional amendments and other measures endorsed by the national judicial-modernization movement had secured for it a much higher level of independence and internal unification than it had historically enjoyed. However, a bipartisan body of legislators remained committed to the principle of legislative supremacy inscribed in the state constitution of 1784. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed a series of clashes over court administration, allegations of judicial corruption, and finally a bitter and protracted battle over Court decisions on educational funding. Chief Justice Brock publicly embodied the judicial branch's new status and assertiveness. When information came to light regarding some of his administrative actions on the high court, deepening antipathy toward him exploded into an impeachment crisis. The struggle over Brock’s conduct raised significant questionsabout the meaning and proper practice of impeachment itself as a feature of democratic governance. When articles of impeachment were voted by the House of Representatives, the state Senate faced the difficult task of establishing trial protocols that would balance thepolitical and juridical responsibilities devolved on them, simultaneously, by the state constitution.Having struck that balance, the trial they conducted would finally acquit Brock of all charges. Nevertheless, David Brock’s impeachment was a highly consequential ordeal that provided a needed catalyst for reforms intended to produce a productive recalibration of legislative-judicial relations.

Author : Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0195033108

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Southern Honor by Bertram Wyatt-Brown Pdf

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1983"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Access is available to the Yale community.

Author : J.W. Looney
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781682260043

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Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish by J.W. Looney Pdf

During the period from 1836 to 1874, the legal system in the new state of Arkansas developed amid huge social change. While the legislature could, and did, determine what issues were considered of importance to the populace, the Arkansas Supreme Court determined the efficacy of legislation in cases involving land titles, banks, transportation, slavery, family law, property, debt, contract, criminal law, and procedure. Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish examines the court’s decisions in this era and shows how Arkansas, as a rural slave-holding state, did not follow the transformational patterns typical of some other states during the nineteenth century. Rather than using the law to promote broad economic growth and encourage social change, the Arkansas court attempted to accommodate the interests of the elite class by preserving the institution of slavery. The ideology of paternalism is reflected in the decisions of the court, and Looney shows how social and political stability—an emphasis on preserving the status quo of the so-called “righteous”—came at the expense of broader economic development.

Author : John J. Watkins,Richard J. Peltz-Steele,Robert Steinbuch
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781682260395

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The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act by John J. Watkins,Richard J. Peltz-Steele,Robert Steinbuch Pdf

Since its first edition in 1988, The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act has become the standard reference for the bench, the bar, and journalists for guidance in interpreting and applying the state’s open-government law. This sixth edition, published fifty years after the passage of the Act in 1967, builds upon its predecessors, incorporating later legislative enactments, judicial decisions, and Attorney General’s opinions to present a synthesis of the law of access to public records and meetings in Arkansas.

Author : Brent J. Aucoin
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781557288493

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A Rift in the Clouds by Brent J. Aucoin Pdf

A Rift in the Clouds chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, when few in the American legal community were willing to do so. Jacob Treiber of Arkansas, Emory Speer of Georgia, and Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama challenged the Supreme Court's reading of the Reconstruction amendments that were passed in an attempt to make disfranchised and exploited African Americans equal citizens of the United States. These unpopular white southerners, two of whom who had served in the Confederate Army and had themselves helped to bring Reconstruction to an end in their states, asserted that the amendments not only established black equality, but authorized the government to protect blacks. Although their rulings won few immediate gains for blacks and were overturned by the Supreme Court, their legal arguments would be resurrected, and meet with greater success, over half a century later during the civil rights movement.

Author : H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015036928870

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Fiction Catalog by H.W. Wilson Company Pdf

Includes an abridged edition of 1908 catalog issued under title: English prose fiction ... list of about 800 title.

Author : David Friedrich Strauss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UCAL:B3326832

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The Old Faith and the New by David Friedrich Strauss Pdf

German philosopher and radical theologian David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874) distinguished himself as one of Europe's most controversial biblical critics and as an intellectual martyr for freethought.

Author : Swami Vivekananda
Publisher : Advaita Ashrama
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788175058057

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Swami Vivekananda on Himself by Swami Vivekananda Pdf

This compilation by Advaita Ashrama, a publication centre of Ramakrishna Math, is a documentation of selected notes and utterances of Swami Vivekananda about himself and his work. These are arranged chronologically so as to form what may be called a near autobiography of the saint.

Author : Lydia Maria Child
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024572562

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The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Child Pdf

Author : Jonathan Willis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108416603

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The Reformation of the Decalogue by Jonathan Willis Pdf

Explores how the English Reformation transformed the meaning of the Ten Commandments, which in turn helped shape the Reformation itself.

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : UOM:39015018652357

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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass Pdf

Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.