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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... Amendment's Meaning 37 C. The Immediate Aftermath of Liberation 48 1. What Sort of Freedom? 48 2. Legal Protections 53 3 End of Radical Ideals and Judicial Response 59 A. Political Abandonment of Reconstruction 59 B. Supreme Court ...
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 ...
... amendment requires the federal government to protect individuals' liberty rights, both from arbitrary private and arbitrary state infringements. The Thirteenth Amendment's idealistic roots lie in the Declaration of Independence, which ...
... amendment's significance in achieving genuine liberation. The Court did not revisit the amendment's meaning until 1968, during the heyday of the Civil Rights movement. In Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer, the Court found that the Thirteenth ...
... Amendment. Vorenberg provided a noteworthy historical account of the years preceding ratification and those immediately following it, but his book contains little about the amendment's significance to modern legal theory. G. Sidney ...
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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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