Reviews for The Constitution in Congress

The average rating for The Constitution in Congress based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-21 00:00:00 Jason Navy I turned to this book, which had been sitting on my shelf for some time, after watching the movie The Amistad (a case which arose a few decades after The Antelope). Noonan's history is exceedingly dry but exceedingly well documented. It is indeed, in the words of one of the Supreme Court Justices involved, a rather "peculiar case" where the status of the slaves in question as either property or people, free or slave, was hashed out ever too slowly over an eight year period while the blacks themselves suffered (nearly 50% dying) as captives of a US Marshall.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-12-26 00:00:00 Raymond Scheer Great descriptions. Read all from both sides of the Rhone en Provence.