Format:
X, 197 S.
,
22 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
9781107013636
,
9781107454354
Content:
"Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition is a succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War"--
Content:
"Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition is a succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War"--
Note:
Literaturangaben
,
1. Prologue: slavery and the laws and rights of nature; 2. Introduction: the apple of gold; 3. Somerset and the antislavery constitutional tradition; 4. Constitutional disharmony in The Antelope and La Amistad; 5. Constitutional construction in Prigg and Dredd Scott; 6. Natural law, providence, and Lincoln's constitutional statesmanship; 7. Public reason and the wrong of slavery; 8. Conclusion: the heritage of the antislavery constitutional tradition.
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Sklaverei
;
Verfassung
;
Abolitionismus
;
Naturrecht
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=40040
