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Journal of Southern Legal History

Volume I, Number 1
1991

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

Was the Fourteenth Amendment Constitutionally Adopted?
by Forrest McDonald
Page 1

Constitutional Silences: Georgia, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights--A Historical Test of Originalism
by Peter Charles Hoffer
Page 21

Breeding Better Georgians
by Edward J. Larson
Page 53

Southerners and the Shaping of the Eighteenth Amendment, 1914-1917
by Richard F. Hamm
Page 81

Historical Study of Personal Injury Litigation: A Comment on Method
by Thomas D. Russell
Page 109

GUEST ESSAY

Requiem for a Constitutional-Legal History Heavyweight: Richard Brandon Morris, 1904-1989
by Harold M. Hyman
Page 135

ORAL HISTORY

"That's Where I Came In": An Oral Interview with Griffin Bell
by Clifford M. Kuhn and
William L. Bost, Jr.
Page 141

PROFESSIONALISM

Preface: Practicing Law One Century Ago
Page 155

"I'd Rather Be a Collard": Early Memoirs of a Country Lawyer
by George E. Butler
Page 157

King & Anderson, 1890-1901: A Law Firm in the Urban New South
by Harvey H. Jackson and
E. Lee Eltzroth
Page 185

DOCUMENTARY ESSAY

"Kindly Feelings ... Cannot Be So Suddenly Forgotten"
by Lawrence B. Custer
Page 201

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: GEORGIA'S DELEGATES TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

Abraham Baldwin: Georgia's Connecticut Yankee Delegate
by Florence Fleming Corley
Page 207

William Houstoun: A Powerful Statesman With a Colorful Personality
by William Scott Henwood
Page 215

William Leigh Pierce: The Notetaker Who Signed With His Heart But Not With His Pen
by Braswell D. Deen, Jr.
Page 219

William Few, Jr.: Georgia's Silent Signer of the U.S. Constitution
by Florence Fleming Corley
Page 223

BOOK REVIEWS

Southern Constitutionalism and Constitution Making
Fehrenbacher, D.E., Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South; Sutton, R.P., Revolution to Secession: Constitution Making in the Old Dominion
Reviewed by Herbert A. Johnson
Page 229

Madison's Interpretation of Original Intent
McCoy, D., The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy
Reviewed by Ralph Ketcham
Page 235

Before Brown: Law and Litigation in the Segregation Era
McMillen, N.R., Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow; Tushnet, M.V., The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950
Reviewed by Michal R. Belknap
Page 239

The Annotated Plessy
Lofgren, C.A., The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation
Reviewed by Paul Heald
Page 249

Southern Crime and Punishment
Spindel, D.J., Crime and Society in North Carolina, 1663-1776; Schwarz, P.J., Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865
Reviewed by Eben Moglen
Page 255

As Businessmen Prosper, Political Power Contracts
Vogel, D., Fluctuating Fortunes: the Political Power of Business in America
Reviewed by Tony Freyer
Page 265

WRIT IN WATER: ANECDOTES FROM THE PRACTICE

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
by Hamilton Lokey
Page 273

Quoting Scripture
by George E. Butler
Page 276

Judicial Temperaments
by George E. Butler
Page 277

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