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Reconstruction and reunion, 1864-88
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- Five justices and the Electoral Commission of 1877
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- English
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- New York, Macmillan [1971]-©1987
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- 2 volumes illustrations 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0025369105, 9780025369108
- OCLC
- ocm00212607, ocm00212607
- At head of title: The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.
- Includes Supplement to v. 7: Five justices and the Electoral Commission of 1877 (xviii, 202 p.).
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- v. 1. Chief Justice Chase -- The work of the Supreme Court -- Reconstruction-- by Lincoln and by Johnson -- December term 1865 : the current quickens -- The Milligan and Test Oath Cases -- Congressional reconstruction : legislation-- the Act of March 2, 1867 -- Supplementary legislation; reflections -- The Court and congressional reconstruction : March to May 1867 -- The background of further litigation -- Ex parte McCardle and Georgia v. Grant, Meade et al. -- Chief Justice Chase and the presidency, 1868 -- Ex parte Yerger, and the close of congressional reconstruction -- A union of "indestructible states" : Virginia v. West Virginia and Texas v. White -- The Legal Tender Cases -- Consequences of the Confederacy I : confiscation, clemency, and contracts -- Consequences of the Confederacy II : the cotton tax, and a church schism -- Municipal bonds I : conflict in Iowa -- Municipal bonds II : from 1870 -- The Thirteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act -- The Civil Rights Act reconsidered, and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Privileges of citizens of the United States : the Slaughter House Cases -- The Chief Justiceship of Chase
- v. 2. Grant finds a Chief Justice -- Waite, C.J., joins the Court -- Legislation to enforce the post-war Amendments : 1866-72 -- The Civil Rights Act of 1875 -- Judicial response to the new legislation I : difficulties at the threshold -- Judicial response to the new legislation II : Minor, Reese, and Cruickshank -- Public aid to railroads; eminent domain; and rate regulation : the Granger Cases -- Extension of federal jurisdiction -- Decisions on the enforcement statutes (1880) -- The renewal of the Court -- The Civil Rights Cases (1883) -- The Pacific Railroad and the public domain -- The commerce clause -- The Court and the police power -- Reviewing the conduct of government -- The Court and the law of nations -- The close of an epoch