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 |
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.