Author: John Adams DixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Speech of Hon. John A. Dix, of New York, on the Bill to Establish Governments in the Territories
Author: John Adams DixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Memoirs of John Adams Dix
Author: Morgan DixThe Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause
Author: Tony Allan FreyerPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700620095
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1849 Chief Justice Taney’s Court delivered a 5-4 decision on the legal status of immigrants and free blacks under the federal commerce power. The closely divided decision, further emphasized by the fact there were eight opinions, played a part in the increasingly contested politics over growing immigration, and the controversies about fugitive slaves and the western expansion of slavery that resulted in the Compromise of 1850. In the decades after the Civil War federal regulation of immigration almost entirely displaced the role of the states. Yet, over a century later, Justice Scalia in Arizona v. US appealed to the era when states exercised greater control over who they allowed to cross their borders; a dissent which has returned the Passenger Cases to the contemporary relevance. The Passenger Cases provide a counter-history that allowed the Court to affirm federal supremacy and state-federal cooperation in Arizona I (2011) and II (2012). In The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause Tony Allan Freyer focuses on the antebellum Supreme Court’s role prescribing state-federal regulation of immigrants, the movement of free blacks within the United States and on the origins, state court decisions, federal precedents, appellate arguments, and opinion-making that culminated in the Court’s decision of the Passenger Cases. The Court’s split decision provided political legitimacy for the 1850 Compromise: enactment of a stronger fugitive slave law, admission of slavery in western territories based on popular vote of residents (popular sovereignty), and the abolition of the slave trade in Washington D.C. The divided opinions in the Passenger Cases also influenced the immigrant and slavery crises which disrupted the balance between free and slave-labor states, culminating in the Civil War. The states did indeed enact laws enabling exclusion of undesirable white immigrants and free blacks. The 5-4 division of the Court anticipated the better known, but even more divisive, views of the Justices in the Dred Scott case (1857). And in considering the post-Reconstruction evolution of new standards by which to judge immigration issues, the Passenger Cases revealed the continuing controversy over how to treat those who wish to come to our country, even as federal law came to dominate the regulation of immigration. These issues continued to complicate immigration law as much today as they did more than a century and a half ago. The persistence of these problems suggested that a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind" continued to demand a coherent, humane, and more consistent immigration policy.
The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900
Author: Peverill SquirePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132334
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 provides a comprehensive analysis of the role constituent instructions played in American politics for more than a hundred years after its founding. Constituent instructions were more widely issued than previously thought, and members of state legislatures and Congress were more likely to obey them than political scientists and historians have assumed. Peverill Squire expands our understanding of constituent instructions beyond a handful of high-profile cases, through analyses of two unique data sets: one examining more than 5,000 actionable communications (instructions and requests) sent to state legislators by constituents through town meetings, mass meetings, and local representative bodies; the other examines more than 6,600 actionable communications directed by state legislatures to their state’s congressional delegations. He draws the data, examples, and quotes almost entirely from original sources, including government documents such as legislative journals, session laws, town and county records, and newspaper stories, as well as diaries, memoirs, and other contemporary sources. Squire also includes instructions to and from Confederate state legislatures in both data sets. In every respect, the Confederate state legislatures mirrored the legislatures that preceded and followed them.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The Great Issue; Or, the Three Presidential Candidates; Being a Brief Historical Sketch of the Free Soil Question in the United States, from the Congresses of 1774 and '87 to the Present Time
Author: O. C. GARDINERCommunication from Hon. John A. Dix, to the Select Committee of the Senate on the Report of Trinity Church
Author: John Adams DixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York
Author: Daniel Stevens DickinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description