The spirit of the Constitution : John Marshall and the 200-year odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland /
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| Author / Creator: | Schwartz, David S. , author. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| Description: | xi, 328 pages ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11931745 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "The letter and spirit of the Constitution"
- "The case now to be determined" : the elusive meaning of McCulloch v. Maryland
- "A question perpetually arising" : constitutional politics and law, circa 1819
- "Has Congress power to incorporate a bank?" : the McCulloch oral argument and opinion
- "As far as human prudence could insure" : the retreat from implied powers
- "The baneful influence of this narrow construction" : Mcculloch in the Age of Jackson, 1832-1860
- "The various crises of human affairs" : McCulloch and the Civil War
- "The government of all" : the rise and fall of Reconstruction, 1865-1883
- "Acting directly on the people" : neo-whig nationalism, 1868-1888
- "The painful duty of this tribunal" : the emergence of judicial supremacy, 1884-1901
- "Some choice of means" : the Lochner era and progressivism
- "Withholding the most appropriate means" : the New Deal and judicial crisis, 1932-1936
- "It is a constitution we are expounding" : the triumph of the capable constitution, 1937-1968
- "A splendid bauble" : McCulloch in the long conservative court, 1969-2018
- Conclusion : "as long as our system shall exist".