The political thought of the Civil War /
"The Civil War continues to speak so powerfully to us because it was a constitutional moment in which the meaning and soundness of the regime was put in doubt. In The Political Thought of the Civil War, leading scholars of American political thought take a "deliberative" approach to t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2018]
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| Series: | American political thought.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The Civil War as a regime question / Thomas W. Merrill, Alan Levine, and James R. Stoner, Jr
- The later Jefferson and the problem of natural rights / Thomas W. Merrill
- Slavery and the US Supreme Court / Keith E. Whittington
- Antebellum natural rights liberalism / Daniel S. Malachuk
- Scientific racism in antebellum America / Alan Levine
- From Calhoun to secession / James H. Read
- Lincoln and "the public estimate of the negro" : from anti-amalgamation to antislavery / Diana J. Schaub
- Why did Lincoln go to war? / Steven B. Smith
- The Lincolnian Constitution / Caleb Verbois
- To preserve, protect, and defend : the Emancipation Proclamation / William B. Allen
- The case of the Confederate Constitution / James R. Stoner, Jr
- Completing the Constitution : the Reconstruction amendments / Michael Zuckert
- The politics of Reconstruction and the problem of self-government / Philip B. Lyons
- "A school for the moral education of the nation" : Frederick Douglass on the meaning of the Civil War / Peter C. Myers
- The South and American Constitutionalism after the Civil War / Johnathan O'Neill.
