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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... equal society have the right to pursue self-defined goals, so long as they do not arbitrarily infringe on the fundamental rights of others. Restrictions on autonomy that are predicated on arbitrary characteristics, such as race ...
... equal citizens. That power is profoundly tied to this country's collective passion for liberty. Throughout its history, the nation has often fallen woefully short of its self-image as a free republic of equals, particularly when slavery ...
... equal freedom would later serve as the starting point for Radical Republicans, who advanced the Thirteenth Amendment through Congress and, later, through state ratification. But the founding generation of American revolutionaries lived ...
... equals.”7 Jacobus tenBroek, a historian of the Reconstruction period, pointed out that the ability of both camps to harness the Fifth Amendment for opposite ends indicated the centrality that constitutional interpretation played in the ...
... equal to the states' combined number of senators and representatives. The electors, who comprise the body that votes for the president, played a consequential role in both placing slaveholders, instead of principled antislavery ...
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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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