The Confiscation Acts
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From Property To Person
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Author : Silvana R. Siddali
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2005-03-01
From Property To Person written by Silvana R. Siddali and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-01 with History categories.
Most historians accept the proposition that in the first two years of the Civil War the North's primary aim was to reestablish the Union and the Constitution, not to emancipate slaves. But when northerners began clamoring for the confiscation of southern land and slaves as a punitive, military, and revenue-raising tactic, the constitutional right to personal property, particularly human property, came into question. In From Property to Person, Silvana R. Siddali traces the resulting discourse among northern voters, politicians, military leaders, and President Lincoln, elucidating how emancipation ultimately became an essential political cause in the North. After the outbreak of civil war, many northern citizens demanded that slaves be seized as contraband without necessarily endorsing their emancipation. Siddali examines the public and political debates in the North over southerners' private property rights and explains how these deliberations set in motion the first major reconsideration of the Constitution since the Bill of Rights. Fundamental questions arose: Who had the right to control the war effort? What were the rights of rebellious citizens in a democratic Republic? How did one define human bondage that is implicitly protected in the nation's founding documents? Would the destruction of slavery irreparably damage the Constitution? Through the two Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862, the author argues, Americans worked out a conundrum between property rights and constitutionally protected civil liberties. The right of all human beings to freedom now trumped white southerners' right to human property. In a rich analysis of editorials, pamphlets, letters, and congressional speeches, From Property to Person reveals the swift transformation in rhetoric concerning the Constitution and its protection of private property rights. The Confiscation Acts paved the way for the Reconstruction Amendments by fostering support for a broader reach by the federal government into private property rights and envisioning a new interpretation of an individual citizen's rights and obligations.
The Confiscation Acts
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Author : John Syrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Confiscation Acts written by John Syrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with United States categories.
The Civil War Confiscation Acts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Civil War Confiscation Acts written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with United States categories.
This is an account of two significant laws passed during the US Civil War, The Confiscation Acts (1861-62). It examines the political contexts, especially the debates in Congress, and how the failure of the Confiscation Acts during the war presaged the political and structural shortcomings of Reconstruction afterwards.
The Confiscation Act Of 1861 For The Seizure And Condemnation Of Property Used For Insurrectionary Purposes As Prize Of War
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Author : Rufus Waples
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864
The Confiscation Act Of 1861 For The Seizure And Condemnation Of Property Used For Insurrectionary Purposes As Prize Of War written by Rufus Waples and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with United States categories.
The Confiscation Act Of 1861 For The Seizure And Condemnation Of Property Used For Insurrectionary Purposes As Prize Of War
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Author : Rufus Waples
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-08
The Confiscation Act Of 1861 For The Seizure And Condemnation Of Property Used For Insurrectionary Purposes As Prize Of War written by Rufus Waples and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-08 with Law categories.
The Civil War Confiscation Acts
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Author : John Syrett
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2005
The Civil War Confiscation Acts written by John Syrett and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
The Confiscation Acts were designed to sanction slave holding states by authorizing the Federal Government to seize rebel properties and grant freedom to slaves who fought with or worked for the Confederate military. In the first full account in more than twenty years of them, John Syrett examines the political contexts of the Acts, especially the debates in Congress, and demonstrates how the failure of the confiscation acts during the war presaged the political and structural shortcomings of Reconstruction after the war.
The Limits Of Sovereignty
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Author : Daniel W. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2010-10-21
The Limits Of Sovereignty written by Daniel W. Hamilton and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-21 with Law categories.
Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a view constituted the weaker side of an ongoing argument about government sovereignty and individual rights. What brought about this drastic shift in legal and political thoug...
Confiscation Act 1997
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Author : Victoria
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Confiscation Act 1997 written by Victoria and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Confiscations categories.
The Confiscation Of Property During The Civil War
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Author : James Garfield Randall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
The Confiscation Of Property During The Civil War written by James Garfield Randall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Constitutional law categories.
Act Of Justice
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Author : Burrus Carnahan
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2007-09-21
Act Of Justice written by Burrus Carnahan and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-21 with History categories.
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would “have no lawful right” to interfere with the institution of slavery. Yet less than two years later, he issued a proclamation intended to free all slaves throughout the Confederate states. When critics challenged the constitutional soundness of the act, Lincoln pointed to the international laws and usages of war as the legal basis for his Proclamation, asserting that the Constitution invested the president “with the law of war in time of war.” As the Civil War intensified, the Lincoln administration slowly and reluctantly accorded full belligerent rights to the Confederacy under the law of war. This included designating a prisoner of war status for captives, honoring flags of truce, and negotiating formal agreements for the exchange of prisoners—practices that laid the intellectual foundations for emancipation. Once the United States allowed Confederates all the privileges of belligerents under international law, it followed that they should also suffer the disadvantages, including trial by military courts, seizure of property, and eventually the emancipation of slaves. Even after the Lincoln administration decided to apply the law of war, it was unclear whether state and federal courts would agree. After careful analysis, author Burrus M. Carnahan concludes that if the courts had decided that the proclamation was not justified, the result would have been the personal legal liability of thousands of Union officers to aggrieved slave owners. This argument offers further support to the notion that Lincoln’s delay in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation was an exercise of political prudence, not a personal reluctance to free the slaves. In Act of Justice, Carnahan contends that Lincoln was no reluctant emancipator; he wrote a truly radical document that treated Confederate slaves as an oppressed people rather than merely as enemy property. In this respect, Lincoln’s proclamation anticipated the psychological warfare tactics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Carnahan’s exploration of the president’s war powers illuminates the origins of early debates about war powers and the Constitution and their link to international law.