Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis Over SlaveryUniversity of Missouri Press, 2006 - 224 páginas "Examines six of Lincoln's key opponents (states' rights constitutionalists Alexander H. Stephens, John C. Calhoun, and George Fitzhugh; and abolitionists Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass) to illustrate the broad significance of the slavery question and to highlight the importance of political considerations in public decision making"--Provided by publisher. |
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... . This series includes books that will appeal to Civil War Roundtable groups, individuals, libraries, and aca- demics with a special interest in this era of American history. Lincoln's Defense of Politics The Public Man and His Opponents.
... . This series includes books that will appeal to Civil War Roundtable groups, individuals, libraries, and aca- demics with a special interest in this era of American history. Lincoln's Defense of Politics The Public Man and His Opponents.
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... America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 10 09 08 07 06 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Schneider ... American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , Z39.48 , 1984 . 2005026927 ...
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... American history, except incidentally.”3 The question that Jaffa's book considers is not why Lincoln lost or won the debates in the electoral sense but whether he deserved to lose or win them. My concern is similarly with a particular ...
... American history, except incidentally.”3 The question that Jaffa's book considers is not why Lincoln lost or won the debates in the electoral sense but whether he deserved to lose or win them. My concern is similarly with a particular ...
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... American citizen, whose conscience permits him so to do, to use his political as well as his moral power for [slavery's] overthrow.” Although clearly superior in Storing's view to the moral- suasionist stance he had repudiated ...
... American citizen, whose conscience permits him so to do, to use his political as well as his moral power for [slavery's] overthrow.” Although clearly superior in Storing's view to the moral- suasionist stance he had repudiated ...
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... Americans did find Lincoln's party too radical; but others faulted it because its opposition to slavery did not in their view go far enough. Until Lincoln's election and the subse- quent disruption of the Union, through a decade marked ...
... Americans did find Lincoln's party too radical; but others faulted it because its opposition to slavery did not in their view go far enough. Until Lincoln's election and the subse- quent disruption of the Union, through a decade marked ...
Contenido
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Chapter 5 George Fitzhugh The Tur to History | 54 |
Chapter 6 The Attack on Locke | 73 |
Part III Abolitionism Natural Justice and Its Limits | 85 |
Chapter 9 Frederick Douglass Antislavery Constitutionalism and the Problem of Consent | 125 |
Part IV Conclusion The Case for Politics | 145 |
Chapter 10 FreedomPolitical and Economic | 147 |
Chapter 11 Between Legalism and the Higher Law | 155 |
Chapter 12 Lincoln s Defense of Politics | 162 |
Epilogue Political Temperament | 179 |
Notes | 185 |
Works Cited | 205 |
Chapter 7 Henry David Thoreau The Question of Political Engagement | 87 |
Chapter 8 William Lloyd Garrison From Disunionist to Lincoln Emancipationist | 105 |
Index | 215 |
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