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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... majority of Congress required by Article V. The vote in the House of Representatives was 133 in favor of passage and 65 against; 24 senators voted for and 12 against. After President James Buchanan took the unusual step of signing the ...
... majority of 100,590 popular votes. Similar exclusionary provisions were found in Indiana law.21 Travel restrictions were not the only burdens on Northern black freedom. The Oregon constitution further forbade blacks from owning real ...
... majority's decision to be binding because it went beyond the issues in controversy: I do not consider it to be within the scope of the judicial power of the majority of the court to pass upon any question respecting the plaintiff's ...
... majority of the votes, it fell short of the two-thirds super majority necessary to move the proposal to the states for ratification. The House returned after the 1864 election, debated the issue extensively, and then passed it ...
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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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