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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... Federal Authority B. Hate Crimes C. Contemporary Instances of Peonage Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index About the Author 101 101 104 137 140 143 147 149 154 161 163 201 221 229 Acknowledgments Contacts I made with friends and ...
... federal government authority to prevent many private and state civil rights abuses. Congress can pass any laws preventing intrusions on liberty that it finds to be rationally related to slavery. The amendment ended all aspects of the ...
... federal sovereignty, granting Congress the authority to protect civil rights. In fact, I argue that the amendment requires the federal government to protect individuals' liberty rights, both from arbitrary private and arbitrary state ...
... federal civil rights reform. This point of view aims to refine the typical approach to civil rights law. Congress and the Supreme Court have rarely relied on the Thirteenth Amendment for protecting the fundamental right to liberty. They ...
... federal legislature can prohibit states from adopting Confederate symbols into their official logos since such displays amount to badges of servitude. Then, I claim that the second section of the amendment authorizes Congress to pass a ...
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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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