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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... issues. First, I argue that the 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 ...
... issue. It foreshadowed the later popularity of secessionism. Just as the Northwest Ordinance was Thomas Jefferson's creation, so too was nullificationism, which Jefferson first proposed in the Kentucky Resolution (1798). Writing ...
... issue that was central to them all. The Compromise of 1850 best illustrates how, among a diversity of negotiated issues, the dispute about slavery was by far the most rancorous and almost plunged the nation into Civil War eleven years ...
... issue certificates that would immediately return the respondent to a life of slavery. In what resembled a bribe, and at least indicated a preference for reenslavement, commissioners who found respondents were runaways received $10 while ...
... issue writs of habeas corpus for persons held “under the authority of the United States.”35 While, in 1864, more than three years after Confederate secession, Congress did finally repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the Fugitive ...
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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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