Paul Finkelman

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John Marshall’s Proslavery Jurisprudence: Racism, Property, and the “Great” Chief Justice
Paul Finkelman
President and Professor of History, Gratz College. B.A., Syracuse, 1971; M.A. and Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1972, 1976. Fellow in Law and Humanities, Harvard Law School, 1982–83. President William McKinley Emeritus Professor of Law, Albany Law School.

I thank Candace Jackson Gray for her help in researching census and tax records connected to Chief Justice Marshall’s slaveholding, and Charles F. Hobson, Tim Huebner, Alysa Landry, and R. Kent Newmyer for their many comments on early versions of this piece. I thank Harvard University Press for allowing me to reprint material in this essay that comes from my book, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court (Harvard 2018).

This is the second Essay in a two-part series exploring Chief Justice John Marshall’s private and public relationship to slavery.

John Marshall Legal History Slavery
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Master John Marshall and the Problem of Slavery
Paul Finkelman
President and Professor of History, Gratz College. B.A., Syracuse, 1971; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972, 1976. Fellow in Law and Humanities, Harvard Law School, 1982–83. President William McKinley Emeritus Professor of Law, Albany Law School.

I thank Candace Jackson Gray for her help in researching census and tax records connected to Marshall’s slaveholding, and Charles F. Hobson, Tim Huebner, Alysa Landry, and R. Kent Newmyer for their many comments on early versions of this piece.

This is the first of two Essays exploring Chief Justice John Marshall’s private and public relationship to slavery.

John Marshall Legal History Slavery
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The Nefarious Intentions of the Framers?
Paul Finkelman
President, Gratz College in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. Also currently serves as Fulbright Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, and John E. Murray Visiting Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

The timing of Professor Michael Klarman’s The Framers’ Coup is fortuitous. Under a never-used constitutional provision, twenty-eight states have asked for a convention to write a balanced budget amendment.

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