TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Steven Preston AU - McKinley,John TI - John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court: circuit riding in the old Southwest SN - 9780817386269 AV - KF8745.M38 B76 2012eb U1 - 347.73/2634092B 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Tuscaloosa, Ala. PB - University of Alabama Press KW - McKinley, John, KW - United States KW - Supreme Court KW - Biography KW - États-Unis KW - Biographies KW - fast KW - Judges KW - Circuit courts KW - Southwest, Old KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Politicians KW - Alabama KW - Juges KW - Cours de circuit KW - États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - Hommes politiques KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Lawyers & Judges KW - bisacsh KW - LAW KW - Government KW - Federal KW - Old Southwest KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf N1 - "Appendix: Justice John McKinley's Supreme Court Opinions and Dissents."; Includes bibliographical references and index; The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley -- Logans, law, and political futility -- Alabama fever and Georgia faction -- The politics of political change -- Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington -- The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court -- The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842 -- Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852 -- The legacies of Justice John Mckinley N2 - John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama. Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculat UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=585089 ER -