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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... Union—has tended to overshadow misgivings about the manner in which those achievements were realized. Among Lincoln's contem- poraries, however, such misgivings were rife, and they have never alto- gether disappeared. On one hand ...
... Union—has tended to overshadow misgivings about the manner in which those achievements were realized. Among Lincoln's contem- poraries, however, such misgivings were rife, and they have never alto- gether disappeared. On one hand ...
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... Union- saver have been correct to perceive a tension between his moral and constitutional aims. It is difficult to avoid the impression, however, that Lincoln saw something valuable in the political life of the nation that has escaped ...
... Union- saver have been correct to perceive a tension between his moral and constitutional aims. It is difficult to avoid the impression, however, that Lincoln saw something valuable in the political life of the nation that has escaped ...
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... Union, through a decade marked, in the words of Don E. Fehrenbacher, by “the submergence of other public business in the all-absorbing controversy over Negro slavery,” one thing did not change: “Constitutional restraints and political ...
... Union, through a decade marked, in the words of Don E. Fehrenbacher, by “the submergence of other public business in the all-absorbing controversy over Negro slavery,” one thing did not change: “Constitutional restraints and political ...
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... Union by a zealous enforcement , in the first months of his administration , of the fugitive slave law , which he hated and loathed from the bottom of his heart . ” But if Lincoln had succeeded in winning back the southern states , the ...
... Union by a zealous enforcement , in the first months of his administration , of the fugitive slave law , which he hated and loathed from the bottom of his heart . ” But if Lincoln had succeeded in winning back the southern states , the ...
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... Union with the perfect assurance that their diabolical system would be preserved from harm . ” 9 James M. McPherson has spoken of the Emancipation Proclamation as having “ liberated Abraham Lincoln from the agonizing contradiction ...
... Union with the perfect assurance that their diabolical system would be preserved from harm . ” 9 James M. McPherson has spoken of the Emancipation Proclamation as having “ liberated Abraham Lincoln from the agonizing contradiction ...
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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