Era of the Oath : : Northern Loyalty Tests during the Civil War and Reconstruction / / Harold Melvin Hyman.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©1954 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction: Loyalty on Demand
- 1. Congress, Cabinet, and Civil Servants
- 2. The First Year: Loyalty Tests Spread
- 3. Loyalty Defined: The Ironclad Test Oath
- 4. The Key to Freedom
- 5. A Problem of Peace: Postwar Administration and the Test Oath
- 6. Congress, the Executive, and the Test Oath
- 7. The Personal Factor in Loyalty Oaths
- 8. Vacant Chairs in Congress
- 9. Bench, Bar, and Oath
- 10. The Supreme Court Decides
- 11. First Breach
- 12. Final Repeal
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Table of Cases Cited
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index