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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... persons held to labor or service by the laws of said state.” The Corwin Amendment, as it came to be known, mustered the necessary two-thirds majority of Congress required by Article V. The vote in the House of Representatives was 133 in ...
... person has the right to pursue and fulfill his or her unobtrusive vision of the good life. In such a society, the common good is the cumulative product of free and equal individuals who pursue meaningful personal aims. Where people are ...
... persons are left free to fulfill their potential, unfettered by the “idiosyncratic judgments” of others.11 The Thirteenth Amendment grants the U.S. government power to secure the autonomy of emancipated, equal citizens. That power is ...
... persons of a distant people.” South Carolina, which repeatedly appeared as a leader in the antebellum proslavery camp, opposed the clause, and the Continental Congress did not retain it in the final version of the Declaration. In the ...
... persons and the misappropriation of their fundamental interest in life and liberty. Meanwhile, proslavery rhetoric, which the Taney Court accepted, relied on the natural or vested property rights claim that the federal government could ...
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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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