Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Obscurity of Justice John Catron

This Article argues that Justice Catron\u27s acceptance of the general premises of the Court\u27s Jacksonian jurisprudence accounts for his obscurity. Part One demonstrates that Catron articulated a similar framework while serving on the Tennessee Supreme Court. Part Two illustrates his continued support for that framework after he moved to the U.S. Supreme Court. Part Three, however, demonstrates that, although he embraced much of the Taney Court\u27s jurisprudence, Catron did not move in lockstep with his colleagues. Indeed, the elements he emphasized within that framework-namely, support for state sovereignty and equality as well as an aversion to judicial policymaking-led him to break briefly with his colleagues\u27 thinking in the mid-1850s. Even then, Catron failed to stand out as a prominent Justice

Rethinking \u3cem\u3eDred Scott\u3c/em\u3e: New Context for an Old Case

Scholars have misunderstood the context in which Dred Scott emerged. Leading historical interpretations of the decision have relied too heavily on accounts developed by antebellum Republicans and on mid-twentieth-century legal theory. This article offers an alternative account of Dred Scott\u27s origins and argues that the decision emerged from a series of unintended consequences resulting from the Taney Court\u27s efforts to incorporate a Jacksonian vision of governance into constitutional law. By 1857, this effort had generated tensions that made a sweeping decision like Dred Scott nearly unavoidable. The inescapable nature of Dred Scott carries implications for constitutional theorists, especially those calling for the Court to adhere to minimalist interpretive strategies or stark distinctions between law and politics, because such theories cannot evade future decisions like Dred Scott. A departmental constitutionalism providing ample room for extrajudicial interpretation to challenge malevolent Court decisions, however, may be able to limit the reach of future Dred Scotts

Austin Allen, Percussion

Vibraphone Impromptu No. 3 / Austin Allen; Weapon Wheel / Quinn Mason; Marimba Quartet / Alex Shawver; Take That / William Albright; Valse Brillante / George Hamilton Green; Arr. Bob Becker; Waiting for What / Austin Allen; Hushabye Mountain / Robert Sherman; Richard Sherma

The Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846-1865

A conservative consensus dominated the politics of the antebellum North. So argues Adam I. P. Smith, a senior lecturer at the University College of London, in The Stormy Present. Smith has produced an admirable study of how self-defined northern conservatives—who appeared across the partisan spectrum—wrestled with the problem of slavery. Drawing mainly on newspaper editorials and the personal papers of politicians, Smith explores a network of “conservative” assumptions that underlay political argument in the North and provided a level of unity as the region’s leaders confronted the unrelenting demands of the South

Serving Their Communities By Preserving And Explaining Their Past: North Dakota County And Local Museums

Museum scholars and professionals continue to debate the purpose of museums and their relationships to the public. These contentious debates revolve around the institution’s roles within contemporary societal issues. The purpose of this study is to analyze the expanding roles of county and local museums in North Dakota have in their communities with the goal to understand how these museums can thrive and provide positive outcomes to the communities they serve. This thesis argues that local and county museums must undertake an active role in their local communities to continue to positively preserve and interpret the area’s history. Utilizing interviews with museum directors, volunteers, and community members from multiple North Dakota county and local museums, and museum professional and scholarly works, this thesis provides new sources and ideas to present local and county museum directors with different concepts and opportunities to bring their museum closer and generate excitement to the local communities they serve

An online learning approach to in-vivo tracking using synergistic features

In this paper we present an online algorithm for robustly tracking surgical tools in dynamic environments that can assist a surgeon during in-vivo robotic surgery procedures. The next generation of in-vivo robotic surgical devices includes integrated imaging and effector platforms that need to be controlled through real-time visual feedback. Our tracking algorithm learns the appearance of the tool online to account for appearance and perspective changes. In addition, the tracker uses multiple features working together to model the object and discover new areas of the tool as it moves quickly, exits and re-enters the scene, or becomes occluded and requires recovery. The algorithm can persist through changes in lighting and pose by using a memory database, which is built online, using a series of features working together to exploit different aspects of the object being tracked. We present results using real in-vivo imaging data from a human partial nephrectomy

Ichnology of an Intertidal Carbonate Sand Flat: Pigeon Creek, San Salvador Island, Bahamas

Reprinted from: James L. Carew (ed.), May 30–June 3, 1996, Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions: San Salvador, Bahamian Field Station