The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal HistoryNYU Press, 2004 M12 12 - 229 páginas In this narrative history and contextual analysis of the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery and freedom take center stage. Alexander Tsesis demonstrates how entrenched slavery was in pre-Civil War America, how central it was to the political events that resulted in the Civil War, and how it was the driving force that led to the adoption of an amendment that ultimately provided a substantive assurance of freedom for all American citizens. |
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A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. Contents. Acknowledgments ix Preface 1. part. i. 1 Slavery and Its Social Penetration 11 A. Slavery and the Founding Generation 12 B. Slavery as a Cultural Institution 18 C. Centrality of Slavery in ...
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. Preface. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. Moreover, the amendment's contemporary relevance extends well beyond the abolition of slavery: Its two sections grant the federal ...
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. Reconstruction amendments, providing liberty rights protections in cases the ... History of the Thirteenth Amendment. Buchanan's book, however, gained a limited readership because the Houston Law ...
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. The second chapter involves the incremental steps taken toward the amendment's ratification. While the Civil War raged in the divided country, the Thirteenth Amendment's framers argued the desirability ...
... history, the nation has often fallen woefully short of its self-image as a free republic of equals, particularly when slavery was so endemic that even presidents like James Polk, senators like John Calhoun, and representatives like ...
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End of Radical Ideals and Judicial Response | 59 |
Summing Up and Looking Ahead | 94 |
Theoretical Foundation | 101 |
Thirteenth Amendment and Constitutional Rights | 112 |
Contemporary Settings | 137 |
Conclusion | 161 |
Select Bibliography | 201 |
Index | 221 |
About the Author | 229 |
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