A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (with New Foreword)Rowman & Littlefield, 2018 M09 1 - 620 páginas When it originally appeared, A New Birth of Freedom represented a milestone in Lincoln studies, the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America's foremost scholars of American politics. Now reissued on the centenary of Jaffa’s birth with a new foreword by the esteemed Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, this long-awaited sequel to Jaffa’s earlier classic, Crisis of the House Divided, offers a piercing examination of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln and the themes of self-government, equality, and statesmanship on the eve of the Civil War. “Four decades ago, Harry Jaffa offered powerful insights on the Lincoln-Douglas debates in his Crisis of the House Divided. In this long-awaited sequel, he picks up the threads of that earlier study in this stimulating new interpretation of the showdown conflict between slavery and freedom in the election of 1860 and the secession crisis that followed. Every student of Lincoln needs to read and ponder this book.”— James M. McPherson, Princeton University “A masterful synthesis and analysis of the contending political philosophies on the eve of the Civil War. A magisterial work that arrives after a lifetime of scholarship and reflection—and earns our gratitude as well as our respect.”— Kirkus Reviews “The essence of Jaffa's case—meticulously laid out over nearly 500 pages—is that the Constitution is not, as Lincoln put it, a 'free love arrangement' held together by passing fancy. It is an indissoluble compact in which all men consent to be governed by majority, provided their inalienable rights are preserved.”— Bret Stephens; The Wall Street Journal |
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... Constitutional originalism being touted by Attorney-General Edwin Meese ... right amounted to “bad originalism,” barely deserving the name of original ... constitutional rights” lay in the Lincolnian proposition that “a man had to own ...
... Constitutional originalism being touted by Attorney-General Edwin Meese ... right amounted to “bad originalism,” barely deserving the name of original ... constitutional rights” lay in the Lincolnian proposition that “a man had to own ...
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... Constitution, and therefore lawfully, and peacefully, withdraw from the Union, without the consent of the Union or of any other State.”2 Lincoln held that the alleged constitutional right of secession, as distinct from the natural right ...
... Constitution, and therefore lawfully, and peacefully, withdraw from the Union, without the consent of the Union or of any other State.”2 Lincoln held that the alleged constitutional right of secession, as distinct from the natural right ...
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... constitutional law and precedents. But Jefferson's understanding of such law and precedents is distinctively Jeffersonian. At no point is the authority of the British constitution derived from prescriptive or historic right, as distinct ...
... constitutional law and precedents. But Jefferson's understanding of such law and precedents is distinctively Jeffersonian. At no point is the authority of the British constitution derived from prescriptive or historic right, as distinct ...
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... constitutional crises of the seventeenth century. A family of Princes was then on the British throne, whose treasonable crimes against their people, brought on them, afterwards, the exertion of those sacred and sovereign rights of ...
... constitutional crises of the seventeenth century. A family of Princes was then on the British throne, whose treasonable crimes against their people, brought on them, afterwards, the exertion of those sacred and sovereign rights of ...
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... constitution that Britain would not have for over a century. One might say that it was only after the British constitution ... right and wrong” were “legible to every reader,” the truth is that those principles demanded a transformation of ...
... constitution that Britain would not have for over a century. One might say that it was only after the British constitution ... right and wrong” were “legible to every reader,” the truth is that those principles demanded a transformation of ...
Contenido
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Chapter 3 The Divided American Mind on the Eve of Conflict James Buchanan Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens Survey the Crisis | 153 |
Chapter 4 The Mind of Lincolns Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped ItI | 237 |
Chapter 5 The Mind of Lincolns Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped ItII | 285 |
Chapter 6 July 4 1861 Lincoln Tells Why the Union Must Be Preserved | 357 |
Chapter 7 Slavery Secession and State Rights The Political Teaching of John C Calhoun | 403 |
Appendix The Dividing Line between Federal and Local Authority Popular Sovereignty in the TerritoriesA Commentary | 473 |
Notes | 489 |
Index | 539 |
About the Author | 551 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War Harry V. Jaffa Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War Harry V. Jaffa Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War Harry V. Jaffa Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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