Prigg v. Pennsylvania - Milestone Documents

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

( 1842 )

Further Reading

Articles

  • Finkelman, Paul. “Sorting Out Prigg v. Pennsylvania. Rutgers Law Journal 24 (Spring 1993): 605–665.

Books

  • Finkelman, Paul. An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
  • ———. “Story Telling on the Supreme Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania and Justice Joseph Story’s Judicial Nationalism.” In Supreme Court Review, 1994, ed. Dennis J. Hutchinson et al. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
  • Hyman, Harold M., and William M. Wiecek. Equal Justice under Law: Constitutional Development, 1835–1875. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.
  • Morris, Thomas D. Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780–1861. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.
  • Newmyer, R. Kent. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Web Sites

  • “Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention.” Avalon Project Web site. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/debcont.asp.
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