The political thought of the Civil War /

The Civil War continues to speak so powerfully to us because it was a constitutional moment in which the meaning and soundness of the regime was put in doubt. In The Political Thought of the Civil War, leading scholars of American political thought take a "deliberative" approach to the war...

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Other Authors: Levine, Alan, 1961- (Editor), Merrill, Thomas W. (Thomas Westneat), 1974- (Editor), Stoner, James R. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Series:American political thought.
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505 0 |a The Civil War as a regime question / Thomas W. Merrill, Alan Levine, and James R. Stoner, Jr -- The later Jefferson and the problem of natural rights / Thomas W. Merrill -- Slavery and the Supreme Court / Keith E. Whittington -- Antebellum natural rights liberalism / Daniel S. Malachuk -- Scientific racism in antebellum America / Alan Levine -- From Calhoun to secession / James H. Read -- Lincoln and "the public estimate of the negro" : from anti-amalgamation to antislavery / Diana J. Schaub -- Why did Lincoln go to war? / Steven B. Smith -- Lincoln and the Constitution / Caleb Verbois -- To preserve, protect, and defend : the Emancipation Proclamation / William B. Allen -- The case of the Confederate Constitution / James R. Stoner, Jr -- Completing the Constitution : the Reconstruction amendments / Michael Zuckert -- The politics of Reconstruction and the problem of self-government / Philip B. Lyons -- "A school for the moral education of the nation" : Frederick Douglass on the meaning of the Civil War / Peter C. Myers -- The South and American Constitutionalism after the Civil War / Johnathan O'Neill. 
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