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The Political Thought of the Civil War /

"The Civil War continues to speak so powerfully to us because it was a constitutional moment in which the meaning and soundness of the regime was put in doubt. In The Political Thought of the Civil War, leading scholars of American political thought take a "deliberative" approach to t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Stoner, James R. (Editor ), Merrill, Thomas W. (Thomas Westneat), 1974- (Editor ), Levine, Alan, 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Civil War as a regime question / Thomas W. Merrill, Alan Levine, and James R. Stoner, Jr.
  • Part I. The problem. The later Jefferson and the problem of natural rights / Thomas W. Merrill
  • Slavery and the US Supreme Court / Keith E. Whittington
  • Antebellum natural rights liberalism / Daniel S. Malachuk
  • Scientific racism in antebellum America / Alan Levine
  • From Calhoun to secession / James H. Read
  • Part II. Hard choices. Lincoln and "the public estimate of the negro" : from anti-amalgamation to antislavery / Diana J. Schaub
  • Why did Lincoln go to war? / Steven B. Smith
  • The Lincolnian Constitution / Caleb Verbois
  • To preserve, protect, and defend : the Emancipation Proclamation / W.B. Allen
  • The case of the Confederate Constitution / James R. Stoner, Jr.
  • Part III. Pyrrhic Victories? Completing the Constitution : the Reconstruction amendments / Michael Zuckert
  • The politics of Reconstruction and the problem of self-government / Philip B. Lyons
  • "A school for the moral education of the nation" : Frederick Douglass on the meaning of the Civil War / Peter C. Myers
  • The South and American Constitutionalism after the Civil War / Johnathan O'Neill.