Author: John Gray BlountPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blount, John Gray, 1752-1833
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The John Gray Blount Papers: 1764-1789
Author: John Gray BlountPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blount, John Gray, 1752-1833
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The John Gray Blount Papers
Author: North Carolina State Department of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The John Gray Blount Papers: 1790-1795
Author: John Gray BlountPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blount, John Gray, 1752-1833
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The John Gray Blount Papers
Author: Alice Barnwell KeithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The John Gray Blount Papers
Author: John Gray BlountPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: The justices on circuit, 1790-1794
Author: Maeva MarcusPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231088695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Volume 2 details the workings of the Court's experimental practice of sending Justices around the country to serve as judges at sessions of the various federal circuit courts. The documents in this volume reveal that the justices quickly voiced bitter complaints about the demands of their circuit duties. They also questioned the propriety--and perhaps constitutionality--of assigning the same individuals to act as superior and inferior court judges. The documents in this volume also touch upon topics that figured prominently in the law and politics of the era: neutrality, the boundary between state and federal crimes, the constitutional prohibition against impairing the obligations of contracts, and the relationship between law and morality.
The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800
Author: Maeva MarcusPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231088718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Volume 4 assembles a selection of documents illustrating the statuory development of the federal judiciary from 1789-1800. Beginning with a narrative essay on the background of Article III of the Constitution, the volume tracks, from the First through the Sixth Congresses, all the major and minor legislation relevant to the establishment of the American judicial system. As the decade unfolded, experience revealed problems with the system as it was initially structured, and efforts were made to change it. Dissatisfaction with circuit riding, with the method of juror selection, and with judges undertaking duties not strictly judicial, for example, led to various legislative attempts at reform.
The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: The justices on circuit, 1795-1800
Author: Maeva MarcusPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231088701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Volume 3 treats the justices on circuit, and include among other things, a circuit court calendar for each of the three circuits from 1790 to 1800 and a collection of grand jury charges.
The Lost State of Franklin
Author: Kevin T. BarksdalePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813154030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In the years following the Revolutionary War, the young American nation was in a state of chaos. Citizens pleaded with government leaders to reorganize local infrastructures and heighten regulations, but economic turmoil, Native American warfare, and political unrest persisted. By 1784, one group of North Carolina frontiersmen could no longer stand the unresponsiveness of state leaders to their growing demands. This ambitious coalition of Tennessee Valley citizens declared their region independent from North Carolina, forming the state of Franklin. The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession chronicles the history of this ill-fated movement from its origins in the early settlement of East Tennessee to its eventual violent demise. Author Kevin T. Barksdale investigates how this lost state failed so ruinously, examining its history and tracing the development of its modern mythology. The Franklin independence movement emerged from the shared desires of a powerful group of landed elite, yeoman farmers, and country merchants. Over the course of four years they managed to develop a functioning state government, court system, and backcountry bureaucracy. Cloaking their motives in the rhetoric of the American Revolution, the Franklinites aimed to defend their land claims, expand their economy, and eradicate the area's Native American population. They sought admission into the union as America's fourteenth state, but their secession never garnered support from outside the Tennessee Valley. Confronted by Native American resistance and the opposition of the North Carolina government, the state of Franklin incited a firestorm of partisan and Indian violence. Despite a brief diplomatic flirtation with the nation of Spain during the state's final days, the state was never able to recover from the warfare, and Franklin collapsed in 1788. East Tennesseans now regard the lost state of Franklin as a symbol of rugged individualism and regional exceptionalism, but outside the region the movement has been largely forgotten. The Lost State of Franklin presents the complete history of this defiant secession and examines the formation of its romanticized local legacy. In reevaluating this complex political movement, Barksdale sheds light on a remarkable Appalachian insurrection and reminds readers of the extraordinary, fragile nature of America's young independence.
Blood in the Hills
Author: Bruce StewartPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813134277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the regionÕs residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued to permeate perceptions of the area and news of the conflict between the Hatfields and the McCoys, as well as the bloodshed associated with the coal labor strikes, cemented AppalachiaÕs violent reputation. Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia provides an in-depth historical analysis of hostility in the region from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Editor Bruce E. Stewart discusses aspects of the Appalachian violence culture, examining skirmishes with the native population, conflicts resulting from the regionÕs rapid modernization, and violence as a function of social control. The contributors also address geographical isolation and ethnicity, kinship, gender, class, and race with the purpose of shedding light on an often-stereotyped regional past. Blood in the Hills does not attempt to apologize for the region but uses detailed research and analysis to explain it, delving into the social and political factors that have defined Appalachia throughout its violent history.