Book contents
- Secession on Trial
- Studies in Legal History
- Secession on Trial
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Imprisoner’s Dilemma
- 2 Two Lions of the New York Bar
- 3 O’Conor’s Bluff
- 4 The Civil War as a Trial by Battle
- 5 The Return of the Rule of Law
- 6 Speed Issues an Opinion
- 7 Public Opinion and Its Uses
- 8 Thaddeus Stevens, Secession, and Radical Reconstruction
- 9 Underwood and Chase
- 10 Secession and Belligerency in Shortridge v. Macon
- 11 Richard Henry Dana Comes on Board
- 12 The Reach of the Prize Cases
- 13 Two Embattled Presidents
- 14 O’Conor’s Triumph
- Epilogue
- Important Participants in the Davis Case
- Archival Collections Consulted
- Index
1 - The Imprisoner’s Dilemma
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2017
- Secession on Trial
- Studies in Legal History
- Secession on Trial
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Imprisoner’s Dilemma
- 2 Two Lions of the New York Bar
- 3 O’Conor’s Bluff
- 4 The Civil War as a Trial by Battle
- 5 The Return of the Rule of Law
- 6 Speed Issues an Opinion
- 7 Public Opinion and Its Uses
- 8 Thaddeus Stevens, Secession, and Radical Reconstruction
- 9 Underwood and Chase
- 10 Secession and Belligerency in Shortridge v. Macon
- 11 Richard Henry Dana Comes on Board
- 12 The Reach of the Prize Cases
- 13 Two Embattled Presidents
- 14 O’Conor’s Triumph
- Epilogue
- Important Participants in the Davis Case
- Archival Collections Consulted
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Secession on TrialThe Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis, pp. 1 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017