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The limits of sovereignty : property confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 this drastic shift in legal and political thought?. Daniel W. Hamilton locates that change in the crucible of the Civil War. In the early days of the war, Congress passed the First and Second Confiscation Acts, authorizing the Union to seize private property in the rebellious states of the Confedera. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (231 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226314860 0226314863 9786611957063 6611957065 |