The Politics of Judicial Interpretation

The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876

Robert J Kaczorowski author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Published:1st Nov '04

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This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which federal judges, attorneys, and other law officers defined a new era of civil and political rights in the South and implemented the revolutionary 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction.
“Should be required reading . . . for all historians, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, and government officials who in one way or another are responsible for understanding and interpreting our civil rights past.”—Harold M. Hyman, Journal of Southern History
“Important, richly researched. . . . the fullest account now available.”—American Journal of Legal History

"Should be required reading ... for all historians, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, and government officials who in one way or another are responsible for understanding and interpreting our civil rights past." -Journal of Southern History "Important, richly researched... the fullest account now available." -American Journal of Legal History

ISBN: 9780823223824

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256 pages