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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamilton, Daniel W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Temas:
1861-1865
Enemy property > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
HISTORY.
Confiscations
Enemy property
Legislation
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Law and legislation.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Confiscations and contributions.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Claims.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Confiscations et contributions.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Réclamations.
United States
Electronic books.
Claims
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Legislative property confiscation before the Civil War
  • Radical property confiscation in the Thirty-seventh Congress
  • The conservative assault on confiscation
  • The moderate coup
  • The Confederate Sequestration Act
  • The ordeal of sequestration
  • Civil War confiscation in the reconstruction supreme court
  • The limits of sovereignty.

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