Alison L LaCroix
Biographic Data
| ID | 6504646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison L LaCroix |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison L |
| FAMILY NAME | LaCroix |
| SIGNATURE | LACROIX A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Interbellum Constitution
The Interbellum Constitution
Between 1815 and 1861, American constitutional law and politics underwent a profound transformation. A foundational period of both constitutional crisis and creativity, these decades were the era of the Interbellum Constitution. The Interbellum Constitution was a set of widely shared legal and political principles, combined with a thoroughgoing commitment to investing meaning in those principles through debate. The principles were commerce, concu…
Interbellum Constitution
The Steamboat and the Commerce of the Union
This chapter reframes orthodox understandings of the foundational Supreme Court case construing the federal commerce power. In Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), a staple of the constitutional law canon, Chief Justice Marshall held that New York’s steamboat monopoly was invalid because it conflicted with the federal commerce power. In contrast to existing treatments of this famous case, which focus on Marshall’s opinion for the Court, the chapter trains th…
The Fugitive Slave Laws, States’ Rights, and Northern Nullification
Between 1854 and 1861, Wisconsin was the site of a remarkable confrontation among federal, state, and local levels of government. Sparked by the kidnapping of a formerly enslaved man named Joshua Glover, these events featured state resistance to the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Glover’s flight to freedom across state and national borders, antislavery mob action, multiple lawsuits in state and federal court, and the rise of the Republican P…
The Justice, the Sailors, and the Founders’ Legacy
This chapter delves into a searing moment of legal and political controversy in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1823, a free Black British sailor named Henry Elkison brought a case in federal court in which he challenged a state law requiring that any “free negro or person of colour” debarking in any South Carolina port be immediately jailed for the duration of his vessel’s stay. The battle over the law involved numerous levels of governmental and…
Cannons and Codes
Federalists, Federalism, and Federal Jurisdiction
Historians and legal scholars generally agree that during John Marshall's tenure as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835, the federal judiciary expanded its power to interpret the Constitution and asserted with increasing force its authority to speak on behalf of the Union. This single story of judicial nationalism, however, contains two distinct and largely non-overlapping strands. Historians have tended to focus on…
The Authority for Federalism
The Philadelphia convention of 1787 looms enormous in many accounts of U.S. constitutional history, serving as the set piece in which various and muddled worldviews, theories, interests, and allegiances gelled into a coherent science and structure of politics. The Convention thus becomes time zero in the chronology of U.S. political and constitutional development, a finite and forward-looking first moment defining, for good or ill, the terms acco…
A Singular and Awkward War
This essay argues that the Hartford Convention of 1814–15 unfolded as part of a wide‐ranging and vibrant debate concerning the role of the United States in the turbulent Atlantic community of the early nineteenth century. The author’s approach to the convention stands in sharp contrast to those of other scholars, many of whom have treated the convention as either the last gasp of the Federalist party or as a manifestation of New England’s insular…
The Authority for Federalism
The Philadelphia convention of 1787 looms enormous in many accounts of U.S. constitutional history, serving as the set piece in which various and muddled worldviews, theories, interests, and allegiances gelled into a coherent science and structure of politics. The Convention thus becomes time zero in the chronology of U.S. political and constitutional development, a finite and forward-looking first moment defining, for good or ill, the terms acco…
Federalists, Federalism, and Federal Jurisdiction
Historians and legal scholars generally agree that during John Marshall's tenure as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835, the federal judiciary expanded its power to interpret the Constitution and asserted with increasing force its authority to speak on behalf of the Union. This single story of judicial nationalism, however, contains two distinct and largely non-overlapping strands. Historians have tended to focus on…
A Singular and Awkward War
This essay argues that the Hartford Convention of 1814–15 unfolded as part of a wide‐ranging and vibrant debate concerning the role of the United States in the turbulent Atlantic community of the early nineteenth century. The author’s approach to the convention stands in sharp contrast to those of other scholars, many of whom have treated the convention as either the last gasp of the Federalist party or as a manifestation of New England’s insular…
The Authority for Federalism
The Philadelphia convention of 1787 looms enormous in many accounts of U.S. constitutional history, serving as the set piece in which various and muddled worldviews, theories, interests, and allegiances gelled into a coherent science and structure of politics. The Convention thus becomes time zero in the chronology of U.S. political and constitutional development, a finite and forward-looking first moment defining, for good or ill, the terms acco…
Federalists, Federalism, and Federal Jurisdiction
Historians and legal scholars generally agree that during John Marshall's tenure as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835, the federal judiciary expanded its power to interpret the Constitution and asserted with increasing force its authority to speak on behalf of the Union. This single story of judicial nationalism, however, contains two distinct and largely non-overlapping strands. Historians have tended to focus on…
Cannons and Codes
The Interbellum Constitution
The Interbellum Constitution
Between 1815 and 1861, American constitutional law and politics underwent a profound transformation. A foundational period of both constitutional crisis and creativity, these decades were the era of the Interbellum Constitution. The Interbellum Constitution was a set of widely shared legal and political principles, combined with a thoroughgoing commitment to investing meaning in those principles through debate. The principles were commerce, concu…
Interbellum Constitution
The Steamboat and the Commerce of the Union
This chapter reframes orthodox understandings of the foundational Supreme Court case construing the federal commerce power. In Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), a staple of the constitutional law canon, Chief Justice Marshall held that New York’s steamboat monopoly was invalid because it conflicted with the federal commerce power. In contrast to existing treatments of this famous case, which focus on Marshall’s opinion for the Court, the chapter trains th…
The Fugitive Slave Laws, States’ Rights, and Northern Nullification
Between 1854 and 1861, Wisconsin was the site of a remarkable confrontation among federal, state, and local levels of government. Sparked by the kidnapping of a formerly enslaved man named Joshua Glover, these events featured state resistance to the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Glover’s flight to freedom across state and national borders, antislavery mob action, multiple lawsuits in state and federal court, and the rise of the Republican P…
The Justice, the Sailors, and the Founders’ Legacy
This chapter delves into a searing moment of legal and political controversy in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1823, a free Black British sailor named Henry Elkison brought a case in federal court in which he challenged a state law requiring that any “free negro or person of colour” debarking in any South Carolina port be immediately jailed for the duration of his vessel’s stay. The battle over the law involved numerous levels of governmental and…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Constitution (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works)