Roger B. Taney

Jacksonian Jurist

By Charles W. Smith Jr.

Approx. 255 pp., 5.5 x 8.5

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-0931-7
    Published: March 2013
  • E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-4420-2
    Published: July 2018
  • E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4189-6
    Published: July 2018

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Smith describes the political ideas of Chief Justice Taney and discusses his contributions to American constitutional law. Taney is revealed as a socially minded jurist who believed in the power of the whole people to regulate the affairs of life for the common good. As a political leader, Taney belongs in the democratic line that runs from Jefferson to Franklin D. Roosevelt; as a jurist he is a forerunner of Holmes and Brandeis. Originally published in 1936.

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