Sunflower Justice
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Sunflower Justice

A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court

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Sunflower Justice

A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court

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Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state court's arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents that reverberated around the country. Sunflower Justice is a pioneering work that presents the history of a state through the use of its supreme court decisions as evidence.

R. Alton Lee traces Kansas's legal history through 150 years of records, shedding light on the state's political, economic, and social history in this groundbreaking overview of Kansas legal cases and judicial biographies. Beginning with the territorial justices and continuing through the late twentieth century, R. Alton Lee covers the dispossession of Native Americans' land, the growth and impact of labor unions, antimonopoly cases against railroad and mining companies, a nine-year state ban on the movie Birth of a Nation, and implications and effects of desegregation, as well as the shooting of Dr. George Tiller for performing legal abortions. Because judicial decisions are not made in a vacuum, Lee presents each of the justices in the context of the era and their personal experiences before examining how their decisions shaped Kansas political, economic, social, and legal history.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780803254114
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Legal History
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction: Ad Astra per Aspera
  10. 1. The Kingman Court
  11. 2. The Chief Justice as Politician
  12. 3. The Populist Interlude
  13. 4. The Grand Old Man’s Court
  14. 5. Reaction in the Roaring Twenties
  15. 6. The Devastating Depression
  16. 7. The Revised Selection System
  17. 8. Modernizing the Law
  18. 9. Retreat to Conservatism
  19. Conclusion
  20. Appendix: Kansas Supreme Court Justices
  21. Notes
  22. Glossary
  23. Index to Federal Cases Cited
  24. Index to State Cases Cited
  25. Index
  26. About the Author
  27. Series List