Dred Scott And The Problem Of Constitutional Evil
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Dred Scott And The Problem Of Constitutional Evil
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Author : Mark A. Graber
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-03
Dred Scott And The Problem Of Constitutional Evil written by Mark A. Graber and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-03 with History categories.
Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil , first published in 2006, concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally understood as an effort to mediate controversies between persons who disputed fundamental values, and did not offer a vision of the good society. In order to form a 'more perfect union' with slaveholders, late-eighteenth-century citizens fashioned a constitution that plainly compelled some injustices and was silent or ambiguous on other questions of fundamental right. This constitutional relationship could survive only as long as a bisectional consensus was required to resolve all constitutional questions not settled in 1787. Dred Scott challenges persons committed to human freedom to determine whether antislavery northerners should have provided more accommodations for slavery than were constitutionally strictly necessary or risked the enormous destruction of life and property that preceded Lincoln's new birth of freedom.
Dred Scott And The Politics Of Slavery
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Author : Earl M. Maltz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Dred Scott And The Politics Of Slavery written by Earl M. Maltz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Closely examines on of the Supreme Court's most infamous decisions: that went far beyond one slave's suit for "freeman" status by declaring that ALL blacks--freemen as well as slaves--were not, and never could become, U.S. citizens, bringing an end to the 1820 Missouri Compromise, while also resulting in the outrage that led to the Civil War.
Conflict And Compromise
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Author : Roger L. Ransom
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1989-09-29
Conflict And Compromise written by Roger L. Ransom and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-09-29 with Business & Economics categories.
In this book Professor Roger Ransom examines the economic and political factors that led to the attempt by Southerners to dissolve the Union in 1860, and the equally determined effort of Northerners to preserve it. Ransom argues that the system of capitalist slavery in the South not only "caused" the Civil War by producing tensions that could not be resolved by compromise; it also played a crucial role in the outcome of that war by crippling the southern war effort at the same time that emancipation became a unifying issue for the North. Ransom also carefully examines the impact that four years of war and the emancipation of slaves had both on the defeated South and the victorious North. -- From publisher's description.
The Dred Scott Case
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Author : David Thomas Konig
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-08
The Dred Scott Case written by David Thomas Konig and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-08 with History categories.
The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law presents original research and the reflections of the nation's leading scholars who gathered in St. Louis to mark the 150th anniversary of what was arguably the most infamous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision, which held that African Americans "had no rights" under the Constitution and that Congress had no authority to alter that, galvanized Americans and thrust the issue of race and law to the center of American politics. --
Dred Scott And The Problem Of Constitutional Evil
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Author : Mark A. Graber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Dred Scott And The Problem Of Constitutional Evil written by Mark A. Graber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Constitutional history categories.
A Slaveholders Union
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Author : George William Van Cleve
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-10-15
A Slaveholders Union written by George William Van Cleve and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-15 with History categories.
After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But increasingly during the contested politics of the early republic, abolitionists cried out that the Constitution itself was a slaveowners’ document, produced to protect and further their rights. A Slaveholders’ Union furthers this unsettling claim by demonstrating once and for all that slavery was indeed an essential part of the foundation of the nascent republic. In this powerful book, George William Van Cleve demonstrates that the Constitution was pro-slavery in its politics, its economics, and its law. He convincingly shows that the Constitutional provisions protecting slavery were much more than mere “political” compromises—they were integral to the principles of the new nation. By the late 1780s, a majority of Americans wanted to create a strong federal republic that would be capable of expanding into a continental empire. In order for America to become an empire on such a scale, Van Cleve argues, the Southern states had to be willing partners in the endeavor, and the cost of their allegiance was the deliberate long-term protection of slavery by America’s leaders through the nation’s early expansion. Reconsidering the role played by the gradual abolition of slavery in the North, Van Cleve also shows that abolition there was much less progressive in its origins—and had much less influence on slavery’s expansion—than previously thought. Deftly interweaving historical and political analyses, A Slaveholders’ Union will likely become the definitive explanation of slavery’s persistence and growth—and of its influence on American constitutional development—from the Revolutionary War through the Missouri Compromise of 1821.
A New Introduction To American Constitutionalism
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Author : Mark A. Graber
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013-11
A New Introduction To American Constitutionalism written by Mark A. Graber and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11 with Law categories.
Mark A. Graber explores the fundamental elements of the American constitutional order with particular emphasis on how constitutionalism in the United States is a form of politics and not a means of subordinating politics to law.
Dred Scott And The Problem Of Constitutional Evil Cambridge Studies On The American Constitution
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Author : Mark A. Graber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Dred Scott And The Problem Of Constitutional Evil Cambridge Studies On The American Constitution written by Mark A. Graber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Constitutional Myths
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Author : Ray Raphael
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Constitutional Myths written by Ray Raphael and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with History categories.
Americans on both sides of the aisle love to reference the Constitution as the ultimate source of truth. But which truth? What did the framers really have in mind? In a book that author R.B. Bernstein calls “essential reading,” acclaimed historian Ray Raphael places the Constitution in its historical context, dispensing little-known facts and debunking popular preconceived notions. For each myth, Raphael first notes the kernel of truth it represents, since most myths have some basis in fact. Then he presents a big “BUT”—the larger context that reveals what the myth distorts. What did the framers see as the true role of government? What did they think of taxes? At the Constitutional Convention, how did they mix principles with politics? Did James Madison really father the Constitution? Did the framers promote a Bill of Rights? Do the so-called Federalist Papers reveal the Constitution's inner meaning? An authoritative and entertaining book, which “should appeal equally to armchair historians and professionals in the field” (Booklist), Constitutional Myths reveals what our founding document really says and how we should apply it today.
Andrew Jackson And The Constitution
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Author : Gerard N. Magliocca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Andrew Jackson And The Constitution written by Gerard N. Magliocca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Focuses on key Supreme Court battles during Jackson's tenure--states' rights, the status of Native Americans and slaves, and many others--to demonstrate how the fights between Jacksonian Democrats and Federalists, and later Republicans, is simply the inevitable--and cyclical--shift in constitutional interpretation that happens from one generation to the next.