Sovereign of a free people : Abraham Lincoln, majority rule, and slavery /
"Sovereign of a Free People examines Lincoln's defense of majority rule, his understanding of its capabilities and limitations, and his hope that slavery could be peacefully and gradually extinguished through the action of a committed national majority. James Read argues that Lincoln offer...
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2023]
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| Series: | American political thought.
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Table of Contents:
- "The only true sovereign of a free people"
- "We divide into majorities and minorities"
- "The capability of a people to govern themselves"
- "Aroused him as he had never been before": from Kansas-Nebraska to house divided
- "Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements": building an antislavery electoral majority
- "The plank is large enough": Lincoln on race, colonization, and coexistence
- "In course of ultimate extinction": strategy for the peaceful end of slavery
- "To declare the right, so that the enforcement might follow": Lincoln's reconstruction of natural right.