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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... enacted civil rights legislation, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, pursuant to its authority to regulate interstate commerce. However, the Supreme Court has recently significantly diminished this congressional power, which has ...
... enacting clauses, with Kidnapping and Slaveholding. . . . Every slaveholder in the land stands perjured in the sight of Heaven, when he swears his purpose to be, the establishment of justice—the providing for the general welfare, and ...
... enacted personal liberty laws. In practical effect, these laws complicated the apprehension of fugitives, making pursuit more costly and less attractive.32 In 1850, approximately twenty thousand blacks in the North were avoiding their ...
... enact laws that would assure that freedom would not be a hollow word but a national commitment vested with substantive protections. This meant nothing short of erasing vestiges of the Old South. However, to achieve this end, they needed ...
... enact laws for protecting their property rights. Setting “loose four million slaves without a hut to shelter them or a cent in their pockets” was an injustice he wanted to prevent. The federal government's obligation, he believed ...
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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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