Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War /

Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War / / ed. by Paul D. Moreno, Johnathan O'Neill.

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The irreducibly constitutional nature of the Civil War’s prelude and legacy is the focus of this absorbing collection of nine essays by a diversity of political theorists and historians. The contributors examine key constitutional developments leading up to the war, the crucial role of Abraham Linco...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Belz, Herman,
Benedict, Michael Les,
Esh, Christian,
Fornieri, Joseph R.,
Moreno, Paul D.,
Morrison, Jeffry H.,
O’Neill, Johnathan,
Pestritto, Ronald J.,
White, Jonathan W.,
HerausgeberIn:
Moreno, Paul D.,
O'Neill, Johnathan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The North's Civil War
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 9 Illustrations, black and white
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: A Second American Revolution? George Washington and the Origins of the Civil War
  • Part I Constitutionalism Endangered: The Road to Civil War
  • 1 Martin Van Buren as Statesman: State Rights and the Rise of the “Free Soil” Party
  • 2 Lincoln on Black Citizenship
  • 3 Lincoln, Secession, and Revolution: Th e Civil War Challenge to the Founding
  • Part II Legal Change and Constitutional Politics in Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
  • 4 The Trial of Jefferson Davis and the Americanization of Treason Law
  • 5 At Every Fireside: Constitutional Politics in the Era of Reconstruction
  • 6 “The Legitimate Object of Government”: Constitutional Problems of Civil War–Era Republican Policy
  • Part III Contesting the Legacy of Lincoln and the Civil War in the Progressive Era
  • Woodrow Wilson and the Meaning of the Lincoln Legacy
  • 8 The Idea of Constitutional Conservatism in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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