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The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790-1890

The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790-1890

Huebner, Timothy S.

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Series: Studies in the Legal History of the South

Biographies General19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Law

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ISBN10: 0820332364
ISBN13: 9780820332369
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Oct 15 2008
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
This first book to examine the lives and work of nineteenth-century southern judges explores the emergence of a southern judiciary and the effects of regional peculiarities and attitudes on legal development. Drawing on the judicial opinions and private correspondence of six chief justices whose careers span both the region and the century, Timothy S. Huebner analyzes their conceptions of their roles and the substance of their opinions related to cases involving homicide, economic development, federalism, and race. Examining judges both on and off the bench--as formulators of law and as citizens whose lives were intertwined with southern values--Huebner reveals the tensions that sometimes arose out of loyalties to sectional principles and national professional consciousness. He exposes the myth of southern leniency in appellate homicide decisions and also shows how the southern judiciary contributed to and reflected larger trends in American legal development. This book adds to our understanding of both southern distinctiveness and American legal culture.

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