Download or read book The Pre court Career of John Marshall Harlan written by Thomas L. Owen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis deals with the political career of John Marshall Harlan prior to his appointment in 1877 as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Throughout the majority of those twenty-three active years in Kentucky politics, Harlan was an adamant defender of the slave system, and despite the fact that he had been a strong Unionist during the Civil War, he resisted emancipation of the slaves and opposed every effort to gain civil rights for the blacks once they were freed. When Harlan became a Republican in 1868, he hurriedly reversed himself, and became a consistent advocate of the Reconstruction Amendments and of the Civil Rights Acts. On the Supreme Court, Harlan--an ex-slave owner--was widely hailed as a progressive on a conservative court, often delivering impassioned dissents in civil rights and anti-trust cases. The author concludes that above all other considerations, Harlan was an ambitious politician. Having seen his father's political success in the Whig Party, Harlan became active in the party just as its popularity in the state rapidly declined. Therefore, whether in opposition to immigrants as a member of the "Know-Nothing" Party or in support of full protection for slave owners as a member of the anti-Democratic "Opposition" Party, Harlan's stand on these issues, though not totally void of personal conviction, was primarily designed to restore lost political success. Despite Harlan's penchant for placing politics above principle, one consistent loyalty prohibited him from following most of his friends into the southern Democratic Party that emerged to dominant Kentucky politics after the Civil War: Harlan was unwilling to see the Union cause, for which he had proudly fought the Civil War, belittled by the former Confederates who led the southern Democrats. Thus, after failing to create a third party option to the southern Democratic and "Radical" Republican Parties, Harlan, the consummate politician, swallowed his opposition toward full citizenship for blacks and the other aspects of Congressional Reconstruction and joined the Republican Party. The significance of this decision can be illustrated by juxtaposing Harlan's new Republican views with declarations that he made a short time before; truly, political ambition had led to the transformation of a southerner.

Download or read book John Marshall Harlan written by Loren P. Beth and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlan. Known today to every student of constitutional law, principally for his dissenting opinions in early racial discrimination cases, Harlan was an important actor in every major public issue that came before the Supreme Court during his thirty-three-year tenure. Named by a hopeful father for Chief Justice John Marshall, Harlan began his career as a member of the Kentucky Whig slavocracy. Loren Beth traces the young lawyer's development from these early years through the secession crisis and Civil War, when Harlan remained loyal to the Union, both as a politician and as a soldier. As Beth demonstrates, Harlan gradually shifted during these years to an antislavery Republicanism that still emphasized his adherence to the Whig principles of Unionism and national power as against states' rights. Harlan's Supreme Court career (1877-1911) was characterized by his fundamental disagreement with nearly every judicial colleague of his day. His ultimate stance—as the Great Dissenter, the champion of civil rights, the upholder of the powers of Congress—emerges as the logical outgrowth of his pre-Court life. Harlan's significance for today's reader is underlined by the Supreme Court's adoption, beginning in the 1930s, of most of his positions on the Fourteenth Amendment and the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. This fine biography is also an important contribution to constitutional history. Historians, political scientists, and legal scholars will come from its pages with renewed appreciation for one of our judicial giants.

Download or read book In Memoriam Honorable John Marshall Harlan written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of John Marshall Harlan December 16 1911 written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nomination of John Marshall Harlan written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Dissenter written by Peter S. Canellos and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to help enshrine our civil rights and economic freedoms. Dissent. No one wielded this power more aggressively than John Marshall Harlan, a young union veteran from Kentucky who served on the US Supreme Court from the end of the Civil War through the Gilded Age. In the long test of time, this lone dissenter was proven right in case after case. They say history is written by the victors, but that is not Harlan's legacy: his views--not those of his fellow justices--ulitmately ended segregation and helped give us our civil rights and our economic freedoms. Derided by many as a loner and loser, he ended up being acclaimed as the nation's most courageous jurist, a man who saw the truth and justice that eluded his contemporaries. "Our Constitution is color blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens," he wrote in his famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, one of many cases in which he lambasted his colleagues for denying the rights of African Americans. When the court struck down antitrust laws, Harlan called out the majority for favoring its own economic class. He did the same when the justices robbed states of their power to regulate the hours of workers and shielded the rich from the income tax. When other justices said the court was powerless to prevent racial violence, he took matters into his own hands: he made sure the Chattanooga officials who enabled a shocking lynching on a bridge over the Tennessee River were brought to justice. In this monumental biography, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Peter S. Canellos chronicles the often tortuous and inspiring process through which Supreme Courts can make and remake the law across generations. But he also shows how the courage and outlook of one man can make all the difference. Why did Harlan see things differently? Because his life was different, He grew up alongside Robert Harlan, whom many believed to be his half brother. Born enslaved, Robert Harlan bought his freedom and became a horseracing pioneer and a force in the Republican Party. It was Robert who helped put John on the Supreme Court. At a time when many justices journey from the classroom to the bench with few stops in real life, the career of John Marshall Harlan is an illustration of the importance of personal experience in the law. And Harlan's story is also a testament to the vital necessity of dissent--and of how a flame lit in one era can light the world in another. --

Download or read book The Great Dissenter written by Peter S. Canellos and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The definitive, sweeping biography of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan"--

Download or read book The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan written by Linda Przybyszewski and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an innovative combination of personal and judicial biography which illuminates and explains the contradictions and puzzles in Supreme Court Justice Harlan's judicial career.

Download or read book John Marshall Harlan written by Tinsley E. Yarbrough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When David Souter was nominated by President Bush to the Supreme Court, he cited John Marshall Harlan as his model. It was an interesting choice. Admired by conservatives and deeply respected by his liberal brethren, Harlan was a man, as Justice William Brennan lamented, whose "massive scholarship" has never been fully recognized. In addition, he was the second Harlan to sit on the Court, following his grandfather--also named John Marshall Harlan. But while his grandfather was an outspoken supporter of reconstruction on a conservative court, the younger Harlan emerged as a critic of the Warren Court's liberal expansion of civil liberties. Now, in the first biography of this important but neglected jurist, Tinsley Yarbrough provides a detailed account of Harlan's life, from his privileged childhood to his retirement and death. Yarbrough examines the forces and events which shaped the Justice's jurisprudence--his early life and often complex family relationships, education at Princeton and Oxford, his work as a prosecutor during Prohibition, Republican Party activities, wartime service in the Army Air Force, and years as one of the nation's preeminent corporate lawyers (a career culminating in his defense of the du Pont brothers in the massive DuPont-GM antitrust suit). The book focuses, however, on Harlan's years on the high bench. Yarbrough weaves together discussions of the Justice's relations with his brethren, clerks, and staff, an examination of Harlan's role in the decision-making process on the Court, and an analysis of his jurisprudence. The Justice's approach to constitutional interpretation exalted precedent, deference to governmental power, and narrow decisions closely tied to case facts; but he also accepted an evolving, creative model of constitutional construction which permitted expansive readings of constitutional rights. Yarbrough's details Harlan's close relationship with Justice Frankfurter, showing how--despite their friendship and alliance--Harlan strongly marked out his own position, both personally and judicially, on the Warren and Burger courts. And he examines the substance and significance of his dissents in such famous cases as Miranda and the Pentagon Papers. Intensively researched, smoothly written, and incisively argued, Yarbrough's biography offers an absorbing account of the life and career of a great dissenter, hailed by admirers as a "lawyer's lawyer" and a "judge's judge." Coming at a time when the high court has begun to adopt many of Harlan's principles, this account provides an essential perspective on the Court, civil liberties, and a pivotal figure in the history of both.

Download or read book Nomination of John Marshall Harlan written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Dinner Given by the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States to Mr Justice John Marshall Harlan in Recognition of the Completion of Twenty five Years of Distinguished Service on the Bench December Ninth Nineteen Hundred and Two written by United States. Supreme Court Bar and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Marshall Harlan written by Tinsley E. Yarbrough and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of an American jurist who served on the US Supreme Court from 1955 until his retirement in 1971. The study provides an analysis of Harlan's judicial and constitutional philosophy.

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Download or read book The Great Dissenter John Marshall Harlan 1833 1911 written by Frank Brown Latham and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dinner Given by the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States to Mr Justice John Marshall Harlan written by United States Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dinner Given by the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States to Mr. Justice John Marshall Harlan: In Recognition of the Completion of Twenty-Five Years of Distinguished Service on the Bench; December 9th, 1902 The Committee on Invitation, consisting of representative lawyers from each Judicial Circuit of the United States, and of which Mr. Attorney-general Knox was Chairman and Mr. Secretary of War Root was vice-chairman, was ap pointed, and by this Committee the members of the Bar throughout the country were invited to join in the move ment to honor Mr. Justice Harlan, and through this Com mittee also the President of the United States, members of his Cabinet, the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Repte sentatives, the Judges of the Court of Appeals and the Su preme Court of the District of Columbia, the Judges of the Court of Claims, and other distinguished men, were invited to be present as the guests of the Bar on this occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.