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The Jacksonian Conservatism of Rufus P. Ranney - The Politics and Jurisprudence of a Northern Democrat from the Age of Jackson to the Gilded Age (Hardcover)
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The Jacksonian Conservatism of Rufus P. Ranney - The Politics and Jurisprudence of a Northern Democrat from the Age of Jackson to the Gilded Age (Hardcover)
Series: Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest
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Ohio's Rufus P. Ranney embodied many of the most intriguing social
and political tensions of his time. He was an anticorporate
campaigner who became John D. Rockefeller's favorite lawyer. A
student and law partner of abolitionist Benjamin F. Wade, Ranney
acquired an antislavery reputation and recruited troops for the
Union army; but as a Democratic candidate for governor he denied
the power of Congress to restrict slavery in the territories, and
during the Civil War and Reconstruction he condemned Republican
policies. Ranney was a key delegate at Ohio's second constitutional
convention and a two-time justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. He
advocated equality and limited government as understood by radical
Jacksonian Democrats. Scholarly discussions of Jacksonian
jurisprudence have primarily focused on a handful of United States
Supreme Court cases, but Ranney's opinions, taken as a whole,
outline a broader approach to judicial decision making. A founder
of the Ohio State Bar Association, Ranney was immensely influential
but has been understudied until now. He left no private papers,
even destroying his own correspondence. In The Jacksonian
Conservatism of Rufus P. Ranney, David M. Gold works with the
public record to reveal the contours of Ranney's life and work. The
result is a new look at how Jacksonian principles crossed the
divide of the Civil War and became part of the fabric of American
law and at how radical antebellum Democrats transformed themselves
into Gilded Age conservatives.
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