The Limits of Sovereignty : Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War /

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Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a view constituted the weaker side of an ongoing argument about government sovereignty and individual rights. What brought about...

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Autor principal: Hamilton, Daniel W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
Temas:
Enemy property > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
LAW / General.
property rights, confiscation, freedom, independence, liberty, sovereignty, union, confederacy, government, control, civil war, history, politics, political science, nonfiction, seizure, compensation, individual, congress, rebellion, sequestration act, power, state, federal, private, enemy, law, legislation, reconstruction, supreme court.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter one. Legislative Property Confiscation before the Civil War
  • Chapter two. Radical Property Confiscation in the Thirty-Seventh Congress
  • Chapter three. The Conservative Assault on Confiscation
  • Chapter four. The Moderate Coup
  • Chapter five. The Confederate Sequestration Act
  • Chapter six. The Ordeal of Sequestration
  • Chapter seven. Civil War Confiscation in the Reconstruction Supreme Court
  • Conclusion: The Limits of Sovereignty
  • Notes
  • Index

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