John W. Wertheimer is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Davidson College in North Carolina. Most recently, he has written “Law and Society in the South: A History of North Carolina Court Cases”(University Press of Kentucky).
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Davis v. Massachusetts (1897)
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Ex parte Jackson (1878)
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