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Ellis, Richard Emanuel was born on September 7, 1937 in New York City. Son of Daniel and Marion Ellis.
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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) has long been recognized to be one of the most significant decisions ever handed down by the United States Supreme Court. Indeed, many scholars have argued it is the greatest opinion handed down by the greatest Chief Justice, in which he declared the act creating the Second Bank of the United States constitutional and Maryland's attempt to tax it unconstitutional. Although it is now recognized as the foundational statement for a strong and active federal government, the immediate impact of the ruling was short-lived and widely criticized. Placing the decision and the public reaction to it in their proper historical context, Richard E. Ellis finds that Maryland, though unopposed to the Bank, helped to bring the case before the Court and a sympathetic Chief Justice, who worked behind the scenes to save the embattled institution. Almost all treatments of the case consider it solely from Marshall's perspective, yet a careful examination reveals other, even more important issues that the Chief Justice chose to ignore. Ellis demonstrates that the points which mattered most to the States were not treated by the Court's decision: the private, profit-making nature of the Second Bank, its right to establish branches wherever it wanted with immunity from state taxation, and the right of the States to tax the Bank simply for revenue purposes. Addressing these issues would have undercut Marshall's nationalist view of the Constitution, and his unwillingness to adequately deal with them produced immediate, widespread, and varied dissatisfaction among the States. Ellis argues that Marshall's "aggressive nationalism" was ultimately counter-productive: his overreaching led to Jackson's democratic rejection of the decision and failed to reconcile states' rights to the effective operation of the institutions of federal governance. Elegantly written, full of new information, and the first in-depth examination of McCulloch v. Maryland, Aggressive Nationalism offers an incisive, fresh interpretation of this familiar decision central to understanding the shifting politics of the early republic as well as the development of federal-state relations, a source of constant division in American politics, past and present.
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A revealing picture of American attitudes toward the judiciary and the developing court system.
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The Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 is undeniably the most important major event of Andrew Jackson's two presidential terms. Attempting to declare null and void the high tariffs enacted by Congress in the late 1820s, the state of South Carolina declared that it had the right to ignore those national laws that did not suit it. Responding swiftly and decisively, Jackson issued a Proclamation reaffirming the primacy of the national government and backed this up with a Force Act, allowing him to enforce the law with troops. Although the conflict was eventually allayed by a compromise fashioned by Henry Clay, the Nullification Crisis raises paramount issues in American political history. The Union at Risk studies the doctrine of states' rights and illustrates how it directly affected national policy at a crucial point in 19th-century politics. Ellis also relates the Nullification Crisis to other major areas of Jackson's administration--his conflict with the National Bank, his Indian policy, and his relationship with the Supreme Court--providing keen insight into the most serious sectional conflict before the Civil War.
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(The Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 is undeniably the mos...)
The Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 is undeniably the most important major event of Andrew Jackson's two presidential terms. Attempting to declare null and void the high tariffs enacted by Congress in the late 1820s, the state of South Carolina declared that it had the right to ignore those national laws that did not suit it. Responding swiftly and decisively, Jackson issued a Proclamation reaffirming the primacy of the national government and backed this up with a Force Act, allowing him to enforce the law with troops. Although the conflict was eventually allayed by a compromise fashioned by Henry Clay, the Nullification Crisis raises paramount issues in American political history. The Union at Risk studies the doctrine of states' rights and illustrates how it directly affected national policy at a crucial point in 19th-century politics. Ellis also relates the Nullification Crisis to other major areas of Jackson's administration--his conflict with the National Bank, his Indian policy, and his relationship with the Supreme Court--providing keen insight into the most serious sectional conflict before the Civil War.
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Ellis, Richard Emanuel was born on September 7, 1937 in New York City. Son of Daniel and Marion Ellis.
Bachelor, University of Wisconsin, 1960; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1969.
Teaching assistant department history, University of California, Berkeley, 1961-1963, 64-65; instructor department history, University of Chicago, 1965-1968; assistant professor department history, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1968-1971; associate professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1971-1974; professor of history, State University of New York, Buffalo, since 1974. Visiting associate professor of history, Harvard University Summer School, 1973. Lecturer in field.
(The Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 is undeniably the mos...)
(The Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 is undeniably the mos...)
(A revealing picture of American attitudes toward the judi...)
(A revealing picture of American attitudes toward the judi...)
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(McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) has long been recognized to ...)
Member American History Association, Organization of America History, Institute of Early American History, Southern History Association, Society for Histories of the Early Republic.
Married Sharon J. Waldfogel, February 8, 1959. Children: Jonathan, Daniel, Rebekah, Deborah.