The Yazoo Land Companies
Author | : Charles Homer Haskins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Land titles |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Homer Haskins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Land titles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress House |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Land grants |
ISBN | : |
Facimilies of documents dealing with the Yazoo Land Company.
Author | : Charles F. Hobson |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2016-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700623310 |
In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the state's western lands (present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to four private land companies. A year later, amid revelations of bribery, a newly elected legislature revoked the sale. This book tells the story of how the great Yazoo lands sale gave rise to the 1810 case in which the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Marshall, for the first time ruled the action of a state to be in violation of the Constitution, specifically the contract clause. Truly a landmark case, Fletcher v. Peck established judicial review of state legislative proceedings, provided a gloss on the contract clause, and established the preeminent role of the Supreme Court in private law matters. Beneath the case’s dry legal proceedings lay a tangle of speculating mania, corruption, and political rivalry, which Charles Hobson unravels with narrative aplomb. As the scene shifts from the frontier to the courtroom, and from Georgia to New England, the cast of characters includes sharp dealers like Robert Morris, hot- headed politicians like James Jackson, and able counsel like John Quincy Adams, along with, of course, John Marshall himself. The improbably dramatic tale opens a window on land transactions, Indian relations, and the politics of the early nation, thereby revealing how the controversy over the Yazoo lands sale reflected a deeper crisis over the meaning of republicanism. Hobson, a leading scholar of the Marshall Court, lays out the details of the litigation with great clarity even as he presents a longer view of the implications and consequences of Fletcher v. Peck.
Author | : Abraham Bishop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Yazoo Fraud, 1795 |
ISBN | : |
Relates to the second "Yazoo" sale, whereby Georgia disposed of 22 million acres of her western lands to four land companies in Jan. 1795. The sale was annulled Feb. 1796, but not before the Georgia Mississippi Company, one of four, had disposed of a part of its holdings to the New England Mississippi Company.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Business |
ISBN | : |
Author | : The Senate of the United States, During the Second of the Twenty-Sixth Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1158 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julia A. Flisch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Bach McMaster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Aaron Morton Sakolski |
Publisher | : Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Land tenure |
ISBN | : 1610162986 |
Author | : Shaw Livermore |
Publisher | : Beard Books |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2000-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1587980835 |