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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...

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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.
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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.