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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... wrote in an 1855 editorial entitled “ The True Ground upon Which to Meet Slavery , ” Free Soilism is lame , halt and blind , while it battles against the spread of slavery , and admits its right to exist anywhere . . . . There is much ...
... wrote in an 1855 editorial entitled “ The True Ground upon Which to Meet Slavery , ” Free Soilism is lame , halt and blind , while it battles against the spread of slavery , and admits its right to exist anywhere . . . . There is much ...
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... wrote that the constitu- tional restraints “ galled [ Lincoln's ] anti - slavery spirit , compelling him ... to seek to win back the South to her allegiance to the Union by a zealous enforcement , in the first months of his ...
... wrote that the constitu- tional restraints “ galled [ Lincoln's ] anti - slavery spirit , compelling him ... to seek to win back the South to her allegiance to the Union by a zealous enforcement , in the first months of his ...
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... wrote that for Lincoln the paramount importance of the Republican anti - extension program lay in its symbolic meaning as a commitment to the principle of ultimate extinction . Some later generation , he thought , would then convert the ...
... wrote that for Lincoln the paramount importance of the Republican anti - extension program lay in its symbolic meaning as a commitment to the principle of ultimate extinction . Some later generation , he thought , would then convert the ...
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... declared all men to have been created equal ... they were speaking of British subjects on this continent being equal to British subjects born and residing in Great Britain . ” Jaffa wrote , Lincoln's Defense of Politics 16.
... declared all men to have been created equal ... they were speaking of British subjects on this continent being equal to British subjects born and residing in Great Britain . ” Jaffa wrote , Lincoln's Defense of Politics 16.
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... wrote , “ the interpretation of Douglas and Taney certainly does the ' obvious violence ' [ to the language of the Declaration ] that Lincoln asserts that it does . We may even supplement Lincoln's indictment by pointing out that ...
... wrote , “ the interpretation of Douglas and Taney certainly does the ' obvious violence ' [ to the language of the Declaration ] that Lincoln asserts that it does . We may even supplement Lincoln's indictment by pointing out that ...
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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