Download or read book Great Land Sale written by Michigan. State Land Office and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Yazoo Lands Sale written by Charles F. Hobson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the state's western lands (present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to four private land companies. A year later, amid revelations of bribery, a newly elected legislature revoked the sale. This book tells the story of how the great Yazoo lands sale gave rise to the 1810 case in which the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Marshall, for the first time ruled the action of a state to be in violation of the Constitution, specifically the contract clause. Truly a landmark case, Fletcher v. Peck established judicial review of state legislative proceedings, provided a gloss on the contract clause, and established the preeminent role of the Supreme Court in private law matters. Beneath the case’s dry legal proceedings lay a tangle of speculating mania, corruption, and political rivalry, which Charles Hobson unravels with narrative aplomb. As the scene shifts from the frontier to the courtroom, and from Georgia to New England, the cast of characters includes sharp dealers like Robert Morris, hot- headed politicians like James Jackson, and able counsel like John Quincy Adams, along with, of course, John Marshall himself. The improbably dramatic tale opens a window on land transactions, Indian relations, and the politics of the early nation, thereby revealing how the controversy over the Yazoo lands sale reflected a deeper crisis over the meaning of republicanism. Hobson, a leading scholar of the Marshall Court, lays out the details of the litigation with great clarity even as he presents a longer view of the implications and consequences of Fletcher v. Peck.
Download or read book Measuring America written by Andro Linklater and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
Download or read book Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World 1650 1900 written by John C. Weaver and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of the greatest reallocation of resources in the history of the world and an analysis of its effects on indigenous peoples, the growth of property rights, and the evolution of ideas that make up the foundation of the modern world.
Download or read book The Best Land written by Susan A. Brewer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Susan A. Brewer's fascinating The Best Land, she recounts the story of the parcel of central New York land on which she grew up. Brewer and her family had worked and lived on this land for generations when the Oneida Indians claimed that it rightfully belonged to them. Why, she wondered, did she not know what had happened to this place her grandfather called the best land. Here, she tells its story, tracing over the past four hundred years the two families—her own European settler family and the Oneida/Mohawk family of Polly Denny—who called the best land home. Situated on the passageway to the west, the ancestral land of the Oneidas was coveted by European colonizers and the founders of the Empire State. The Brewer and Denny families took part in imperial wars, the American Revolution, broken treaties, the building of the Erie Canal, Native removal, the rise and decline of family farms, bitter land claims controversies, and the revival of the Oneida Indian Nation. As Brewer makes clear in The Best Land, through centuries of violence, bravery, greed, generosity, racism, and love, the lives of the Brewer and Denny families were profoundly intertwined. The story of this homeland, she discovers, unsettles the history she thought she knew. With clear determination to tell history as it was, without sugarcoating or ignoring the pain and suffering of both families, Brewer navigates the interconnected stories with grace, humility, and a deep love for the land. The Best Land is a beautiful homage to the people, the place, and the environment itself.
Download or read book The Land Office Business written by Malcolm J. Rohrbough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1968-01-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book should be of interest to undergraduate courses in American history and politics.
Download or read book Transactions written by Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some issues contain a list of members.
Download or read book The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Parliamentary Debates Hansard written by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States with an Appendix Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents and All the Laws of a Public Nature with a Copious Index First To Eighteenth Congress first Session Compriing the Period from March 3 1789 to May 27 1824 Inclusive Comp from Authentic Materials written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Preferential Treatment of the Actual Settler in the Primary Disposition of the Vacant Lands in the United States to 1841 written by Henry Tatter and published by Tatter Dissertations. This book was released on 1979 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides a comprehensive outline of the legal rights of the frontier settler in the acquisition of the fee simple title to a limited quantity of unappropriated vacant land during the period up to 1841 in the United States. These rights were the basis for future mineral laws and the Homestead Act.
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-24 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book The Trail of the Lonesome Pine written by John Fox and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr. Set in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the twentieth century, a feud has been boiling for over thirty years between two influential mountain families, the Tollivers and the Falins. The character of Devil Judd Tolliver in the novel was based on the real-life of "Devil John" Wesley Wright, a United States Marshal for the region in and around Wise County, Virginia, and Letcher County, Kentucky.
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