Jeremiah Sullivan Black : : A Defender of the Constitution and the Ten Commandments / / William Norwood Brigance.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Brigance, William Norwood,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©1934
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.) :; 4 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Abbreviations of Works Most Frequently Cited in This Volume --; 1. School and Farming --; 2. The Young Lawyer --; 3. Marriage --; 4. Politics and Religion --; 5. Booms --; 6. Chief Justice --; 7. A Jurist of the Commonwealth --; 8. Warring Political Factions --; 9. Attorney-General --; 10. Protecting the Public Domain --; 11. Rumblings of Disruption --; 12. Buchanan and His Cabinet --; 13. The Spirit of Secession and Abolition --; 14. The Secession of South Carolina --; 15. The Cabinet Crisis --; 16. Secretary of State --; 17. Rejection of the Supreme Court Nomination --; 18. The Nadir of Personal and Political Fortunes --; 19. California Land Cases --; 20. Ex Parte Milligan --; 21. Confederate Prisoners --; 22. Steamrolling the Constitution --; 23. Ex Parte McCardle --; 24. The Impeachment Counsel of Andrew Johnson --; 25. Restricting Reconstruction in the Courts --; 26. Politics --; 27. The General Practice of Law --; 28. A Personal Sketch --; 29. The Controversial Writer --; 30. The Forensic Orator --; 31. In the Public Service of Pennsylvania and Maryland --; 32. The Belknap Impeachment Trial and the Tilden-Hayes Election Dispute --; 33. In the Ripeness of Life --; 34. Closing Days --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512814774; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512814774
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William Norwood Brigance.

The life of the brilliant Pennsylvania lawyer who was Attorney-General and Secretary of Sate under Buchanan and legal gladiator during the tragic era of Reconstruction.