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SUPREME COURT DECISION-MAKING IN SLAVERY CASES
by
Dave Bridge
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Dave Bridge
Object Description
| Title | Supreme Court decision-making in slavery cases |
| Author | Bridge, David |
| Author email | deb@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Politics & International Relations |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-06-01 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-07-31 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Gillman, Howard |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Barnes, Jeb Seip, Terry |
| Abstract | This paper looks at Supreme Court decision-making by examining cases that involved issues of slavery. After developing a population of 14 cases, I test the decisions in light of the three alternative hypotheses: attitudinalism, legalism, and regime theory. Each theory explains a different set of cases. The attitudinal model captures cases involving Mississippi laws governing slavery. The legal model explains suits in which the issue was whether a black was a slave or not. Finally, the regime account is most important in fugitive slave law. |
| Keyword | Supreme Court; judicial politics; slavery |
| Geographic subject (state) | Mississippi |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m729 |
| Rights | Bridge, David |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Bridge-20070731 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Bridge-20070731.pdf |
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| Full text | SUPREME COURT DECISION-MAKING IN SLAVERY CASES by Dave Bridge A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) August 2007 Copyright 2007 Dave Bridge |
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