Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew's Court
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Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew's Court
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew's Court

Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew's Court

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William S. Belko (Author)  

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William S. Belko's Phillip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America provides the first comprehensive biography of a pivotal yet nearly forgotten statesman who made numerous key contributions to a transformative period of early American history. Barbour, a Virginia lawyer, participated in America's transition from a mostly republican government to a truer majority democracy, notably while serving as the twelfth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and later as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. After being elected to the US Congress during the War of 1812, Barbour also emerged as one of the foremost champions of states' rights, consistently and energetically fighting against expansions of federal powers. He, along with other Jeffersonian Old Republicans, opposed federal plans for a national tariff and internal improvements. Later, Barbour became one of the first Jeffersonian politicians to join the Jacksonian Democrats in Jackson's war against a national bank. Barbour continued to make crucial strides in support of states' rights after taking his seat on the United States Supreme Court in 1836 under Chief Justice Roger Taney. He contributed to the Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge and Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky decisions, which bolstered states' rights. He also delivered the opinion of the court in New York v. Miln, which provided the basis for the State Police Powers Doctrine. Expertly interweaving biography, history, political science, and jurisprudence, Phillip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America remembers the man whose personal life and career were emblematic of the decades in which the United States moved from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Jackson, contributing to developments that continue to animate American politics today. 4 black & white figures
William S. Belko is the executive director of the Missouri Humanities Council and the author of The Triumph of the Antebellum Free Trade Movement (winner of the 2013 Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award) and The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West. He is also the editor of America's Hundred Years' War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858.
  • Contributor: William S. Belko
  • Imprint: The University of Alabama Press
  • ISBN13: 9780817319069
  • Number of Pages: 328
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 591
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
  • Release Date: 2016-04-30
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: William S. Belko is the executive director of the Missouri Humanities Council and the author of The Triumph of the Antebellum Free Trade Movement (winner of the 2013 Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award) and The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West. He is also the editor of America's Hundred Years' War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858.

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