The Anti-rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865Univ of North Carolina Press, 2001 - 408 páginas A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.S. history. From its beginning in the rural villages of eastern New York in 1839 until its collapse in 1865, the Anti-Rent movement impelled the state's governors, legislators, judges, and journalists, as well as delegates to New York's bellwether constitutional convention of 1846, to wrestle with two difficult problems of social policy. One was how to put down violent tenant resistance to the enforcement of landlord property and contract rights. The second was how to abolish the archaic form of land tenure at the root of the rent strike. Charles McCurdy considers the public debate on these questions from a fresh perspective. Instead of treating law and politics as dependent variables--as mirrors of social interests or accelerators of social change--he highlights the manifold ways in which law and politics shaped both the pattern of Anti-Rent violence and the drive for land reform. In the process, he provides a major reinterpretation of the ideas and institutions that diminished the promise of American democracy in the supposed "golden age" of American law and politics. |
Conteúdo
Governor Seward and the Manor of Rensselaerwyck | 1 |
A Whig in the State House | 4 |
The Patroons Domain | 10 |
The Helderberg War | 18 |
Land Law and the Law of the Land | 22 |
Whig Reconnaissance | 32 |
Public Purposes in Party Dialogue | 34 |
The Wheaton Bill | 39 |
Political Crossroads | 182 |
The WashingtonAlbany Connection | 184 |
Dilemmas for the Democracy | 189 |
Land Reform and Constitutional Reform | 194 |
Partisan Mediators of AntiRent Decisions | 200 |
A Cacophony of Voices | 205 |
The New Constitution | 207 |
Schism | 212 |
Land Reform and Whig Constitutionalism | 42 |
The Making of the Manor Commission | 51 |
The Politics of Evasion | 56 |
Portents of Failure | 58 |
The Debacle in Albany | 62 |
AntiRent Revived | 68 |
The Compromise of 1841 | 74 |
The Trouble with Democrats | 78 |
Whig FallaciesDemocratic Solutions | 80 |
Bargain Theory in the Jacksonian Persuasion | 84 |
Debtors and Tenants before the Legislature | 87 |
AntiRent Transformed | 95 |
DepressionEra Constitutionalism | 104 |
Tightening the RightRemedy Distinction | 107 |
Due Process and the Eminent Domain Power | 110 |
Judicial Review in a Democracy | 116 |
The Logic of Constitutional Reform | 121 |
Signs of War | 128 |
Petitions and Partisanship | 131 |
Land Reform and Democratic Constitutionalism | 135 |
Texas and the Reorientation of Parties | 141 |
The Luxuriation of AntiRent | 148 |
Resistance and Reform | 156 |
The Election of 1844 | 159 |
Bloodshed | 163 |
Mixed Reactions | 167 |
Stalemate | 174 |
The Rout of the Indians | 216 |
Whig Recriminations | 223 |
The NoCompromise Persuasion | 228 |
Democratic Futility | 234 |
Land Reform at the Shrine of Party | 237 |
Political Fratricide | 246 |
The AntiRent Measures | 249 |
A Sinking Ship | 255 |
Whig Resolution | 260 |
AntiRent and the Balance of Power | 263 |
A Troublesome Constituency | 270 |
Antislavery and AntiRent | 276 |
Dead Ends | 281 |
Enmeshed in Law | 287 |
Lawyers in Charge | 289 |
The Failed Compromise of 1850 | 295 |
Division and Decline | 301 |
The Lease in Fee Besieged | 306 |
Perpetual Rent | 308 |
The End of an Era | 316 |
The AntiRent Act of 1860 | 317 |
Defeat | 325 |
Aftermath | 329 |
Conclusion | 331 |
Notes | 337 |
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The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865 Charles W. McCurdy Visualização parcial - 2003 |
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