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Natural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition /
"Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition is a succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War"--
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Slavery and the Laws and Rights of Nature; Classical Natural Law; Modern Natural Rights; 1: Introduction: The Apple of Gold; Slavery and the Contradictions of the American Founding; The Lincolnian Interpretation; The Death of Natural-Law Constitutionalism; Aspirationalism and Constitutional Interpretation; 2: Somerset and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition; Anglo-American Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Slavery; The Somerset Judgment.