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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... rule. But because the minority are their equals, the members of a majority do not hunt them down and extirpate them. And, in such a compact, the members of the minority acquiesce in the majority's rule, but always in the hope that ...
... rule. But because the minority are their equals, the members of a majority do not hunt them down and extirpate them. And, in such a compact, the members of the minority acquiesce in the majority's rule, but always in the hope that ...
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... majority rule; rule by disgruntled minorities who repudiate elections, whether established by force or subversion, is inconsistent with equality. “No will other than that of the majority can be legitimate,” Jaffa added, but in a society ...
... majority rule; rule by disgruntled minorities who repudiate elections, whether established by force or subversion, is inconsistent with equality. “No will other than that of the majority can be legitimate,” Jaffa added, but in a society ...
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... majority, but the rule of the majority according to law. “Lincoln, like Madison and Jefferson, saw that the political rights of majorities are preceded by the equal natural rights of individuals and but the agreement of those ...
... majority, but the rule of the majority according to law. “Lincoln, like Madison and Jefferson, saw that the political rights of majorities are preceded by the equal natural rights of individuals and but the agreement of those ...
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... majority rule. • ̃That the attempt of the slaveholding South to break up the Union during the “secession winter” of 1860–61 was an attempt to nullify an election, and with it majority rule, and beyond that, to negate the consent of the ...
... majority rule. • ̃That the attempt of the slaveholding South to break up the Union during the “secession winter” of 1860–61 was an attempt to nullify an election, and with it majority rule, and beyond that, to negate the consent of the ...
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... majority rule would be possible. This means that had a plebiscite on independence been possible in 1776, Whigs would (if they could) have excluded Tories from the vote! What constituted an “American whig” was accordingly defined by the ...
... majority rule would be possible. This means that had a plebiscite on independence been possible in 1776, Whigs would (if they could) have excluded Tories from the vote! What constituted an “American whig” was accordingly defined by the ...
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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