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The Fate of Liberty : Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties.
If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were singled out for harrassment to Gore Vid...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were singled out for harrassment to Gore Vidal's depiction of Lincoln as an "absolute dictator." Now, in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Fate of Liberty, one of America's leading authorities on Lincoln wades straight into this controversy, showing just who was jailed and why, even as he explores the whole range of Lincoln's constitutional policies. |
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| Notas: | Contents; Introduction; 1. Actions without Precedent; 2. Missouri and Martial Law; 3. Low Tide for Liberty; 4. Arrests Move South; 5. The Dark Side of the Civil War; 6. Numbers and Definitions; 7. The Revival of International Law; 8. The Irrelevance of the Milligan Decision; 9. The Democratic Opposition; 10. Lincoln and the Constitution; Epilogue; Notes; Index of Prisoners of State; Index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780199728978 0199728976 9781601299147 1601299141 |