The Constitution, law, and American life : critical aspects of the nineteenth-century experience /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Nieman, Donald G.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1992]
Subjects:	Constitutional history > United States. Civil rights > United States > History > 19th century. Slavery > Law and legislation > United States > History > 19th century. Sociological jurisprudence > History > 19th century. United States > History > 1865-1898.

Table of Contents:

Hercules unbound : Loncoln, slavery, and the intentions of the framers / Phillip Shaw Paludan
"The Law, and Not Conscience, Constitutes the Rule of Action" : the South Bend fugitive slave case and the value of "Justice Delayed" / Paul Finkelman
Reconstructing female citizenship : Minor v. Happersett / Norma Basch
The language of liberation : African Americans and equalitarian constitutionalism, 1830-1950 / Donald G. Nieman
Victorian moralism and civil liberty in the nineteenth-century United States / Michael Les Benedict
Drug laws and drug use in nineteenth-century America / David T. Courtwright
Commitment law, family stress, and legal culture : the case of Victorian Alabama / John S. Hughes
Creative necessity : municipal reform in Gilded Age Chicago / Harold L. Platt.