Seward's Law : : Country Lawyering, Relational Rights, and Slavery / / Peter Charles Hoffer.
In Seward's Law, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of relational rights—a theory that demonstrated how the country could end slavery and establish a practical form of justice. This theory, Hoffer demonstrates, had t...
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Hoffer, Peter Charles, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Seward's Law : Country Lawyering, Relational Rights, and Slavery / Peter Charles Hoffer. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (210 p.) : 1 map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: T he Country Lawyer -- 1. “There Is No Law of This State Which Recognizes Slavery”: Governor of New York -- 2. “Harboring and Concealing a Weary and Fainting Slave”: Antislavery Litigator -- 3. “There Is a Higher Law Than the Constitution”: Conscience Whig Senator -- 4. “An Irrepressible Conflict between Opposing and Enduring Forces”: Republican Party Campaigner -- 5. “I Am to Engage in Conducting a War against a Portion of the American People”: Secretary of State -- 6. “To the Arbitrament of Courts of Law and to the Councils of Legislation”: Hesitant Emancipator -- 7. “The Union Has Been Rescued from All Its Perils”: Elder Statesman -- Conclusion: Seward’s Law -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Seward's Law, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of relational rights—a theory that demonstrated how the country could end slavery and establish a practical form of justice. This theory, Hoffer demonstrates, had ties to Seward's career as a country lawyer and, despite his rise to prominence and indeed preeminence as US Secretary of State, that mentality remained throughout his life as evinces in his personal attitudes and professional conduct.Relational rights, identified and termed here for the first time by Hoffer, are communal and reciprocal, what everyone owed to every other member of the community. It is a jurisprudential outlook that arises directly from living in a village. Though limited by the Victorian mores and the racialist presumptions of his day, the concept of relational rights that animated Seward was the natural antithesis to the theories and practices of slavery. In the legal regime underpinning the peculiar institution, masters owed nothing to their bondmen and women, while those enslaved unconditionally owed life and labor to their masters. The irrepressible conflict was, for Seward, jurisprudential as well as moral and political.Hoffer's leading assumption in Seward's Law is that a lifetime spent as a lawyer influences how a person responds to the challenges of everyday life. Seward remained a country lawyer at heart and that fact defined the course of his political career. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Antislavery movements United States History 19th century. Country lawyers New York (State) Biography. Practice of law Political aspects New York (State) History 19th century. Slavery Political aspects United States History 19th century. Discrimination & Race Relations. LEGAL HISTORY & STUDIES. HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). bisacsh seward folly, william henry seward litigator, lawyers in the civil war era, antebellum politics, law and slavery in the civil war era. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110751833 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English 9783111319131 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 9783111318189 ZDB-23-DEG https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501767340?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501767340 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501767340/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: T he Country Lawyer -- 1. “There Is No Law of This State Which Recognizes Slavery”: Governor of New York -- 2. “Harboring and Concealing a Weary and Fainting Slave”: Antislavery Litigator -- 3. “There Is a Higher Law Than the Constitution”: Conscience Whig Senator -- 4. “An Irrepressible Conflict between Opposing and Enduring Forces”: Republican Party Campaigner -- 5. “I Am to Engage in Conducting a War against a Portion of the American People”: Secretary of State -- 6. “To the Arbitrament of Courts of Law and to the Councils of Legislation”: Hesitant Emancipator -- 7. “The Union Has Been Rescued from All Its Perils”: Elder Statesman -- Conclusion: Seward’s Law -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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