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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McCurdy, Charles W., 1948- Anti-rent era in New York law and politics, 1839-1865. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001 (OCoLC)606497137 Online version: McCurdy, Charles W., 1948- Anti-rent era in New York law and politics, 1839-1865. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001 (OCoLC)607231488 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles W McCurdy |
| ISBN: | 0807825905 9780807825907 0807857653 9780807857656 |
| OCLC Number: | 43919602 |
| Description: | xvii, 408 p. : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Governor Seward and the Manor of Rensselaerwyck -- A Whig in the State House -- The Patroon's Domain -- The Helderberg War -- Land Law and the Law of the Land -- Whig Reconnaissance -- Public Purposes in Party Dialogue -- The Wheaton Bill -- Land Reform and Whig Constitutionalism -- The Making of the Manor Commission -- The Politics of Evasion -- Portents of Failure -- The Debacle in Albany -- Anti-Rent Revived -- The Compromise of 1841 -- The Trouble with Democrats -- Whig "Fallacies"--Democratic Solutions -- Bargain Theory in the Jacksonian Persuasion -- Debtors and Tenants before the Legislature -- Anti-Rent Transformed -- Depression-Era Constitutionalism -- Tightening the Right-Remedy Distinction -- Due Process and the Eminent Domain Power -- Judicial Review in a Democracy -- The Logic of Constitutional Reform -- Signs of War -- Petitions and Partisanship -- Land Reform and Democratic Constitutionalism -- Texas and the Reorientation of Parties -- The Luxuriation of Anti-Rent -- Resistance and Reform -- The Election of 1844 -- Bloodshed -- Mixed Reactions -- Stalemate -- Political Crossroads -- The Washington-Albany Connection -- Dilemmas for the Democracy -- Land Reform and Constitutional Reform -- Partisan Mediators of Anti-Rent Decisions -- A Cacophony of Voices -- The "New Constitution" -- Schism -- The Rout of the "Indians" -- Whig Recriminations -- The No-Compromise Persuasion -- Democratic Futility -- Land Reform at the Shrine of Party -- Political Fratricide -- The Anti-Rent Measures -- A Sinking Ship. |
| Series Title: | Studies in legal history. |
| Responsibility: | Charles W. McCurdy. |
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