The Past and the Present. a Discourse Delivered Before the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama
The Past and the Present. a Discourse Delivered Before the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama

Author: Benjamin F. (Benjamin Faneuil) Porter

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781290885553

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Taming Alabama
Taming Alabama

Author: Paul McWhorter Pruitt (Jr.)

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2010-07-20

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0817356010

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Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental values of nineteenth and early twentieth century white southern society; and all believed, or came to believe, in the transforming power of law. As a starting point in creating the groundwork of genuine civility and progress in the state, these reformers insisted on equal treatment and due process in elections, allocation of resources, and legal proceedings. To an educator like Julia Tutwiler or a clergyman like James F. Smith, due process was a question of simple fairness or Christian principle. To lawyers like Benjamin F. Porter, Thomas Goode Jones, or Henry D. Clayton, devotion to due process was part of the true religion of the common law. To a former Populist radical like Joseph C. Manning, due process and a free ballot were requisites for the transformation of society.