Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis Over Slavery"Examines six of Lincoln's key opponents (states' rights constitutionalists Alexander H. Stephens, John C. Calhoun, and George Fitzhugh; and abolitionists Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass) to illustrate the broad significance of the slavery question and to highlight the importance of political considerations in public decision making"--Provided by publisher. |
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... United States of America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 10 09 08 07 06 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication ... United States—History— 19th century. 4. Slavery—Southern States—Justification. 5. Antislavery movements—United States ...
... United States of America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 10 09 08 07 06 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication ... United States—History— 19th century. 4. Slavery—Southern States—Justification. 5. Antislavery movements—United States ...
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... United States, but it took place mostly on the political margins. The abolitionists were determined not to let the Constitution have the last word. The seeming arbitrariness of the distinction between territories and states fed ...
... United States, but it took place mostly on the political margins. The abolitionists were determined not to let the Constitution have the last word. The seeming arbitrariness of the distinction between territories and states fed ...
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... United States, they are subject to the same condition of all other property contemplated in that instrument, and their owners are entitled to all the advantages of this property equally with other citizens in their property—We repeat ...
... United States, they are subject to the same condition of all other property contemplated in that instrument, and their owners are entitled to all the advantages of this property equally with other citizens in their property—We repeat ...
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... United States and independent of them, that he considers himself at liberty to trample all the statutes of the land and the decisions of all the tribunals of the land under his feet when they are at variance with his own private ...
... United States and independent of them, that he considers himself at liberty to trample all the statutes of the land and the decisions of all the tribunals of the land under his feet when they are at variance with his own private ...
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... United States certainly did not mean that he thought such an event was near. Fehrenbacher wrote that for Lincoln the paramount importance of the Republican anti-extension program lay in its symbolic meaning as a commitment to the ...
... United States certainly did not mean that he thought such an event was near. Fehrenbacher wrote that for Lincoln the paramount importance of the Republican anti-extension program lay in its symbolic meaning as a commitment to the ...
Contents
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Chapter 5 George Fitzhugh The Tur to History | 54 |
Chapter 6 The Attack on Locke | 73 |
Part III Abolitionism Natural Justice and Its Limits | 85 |
Chapter 9 Frederick Douglass Antislavery Constitutionalism and the Problem of Consent | 125 |
Part IV Conclusion The Case for Politics | 145 |
Chapter 10 FreedomPolitical and Economic | 147 |
Chapter 11 Between Legalism and the Higher Law | 155 |
Chapter 12 Lincoln s Defense of Politics | 162 |
Epilogue Political Temperament | 179 |
Notes | 185 |
Works Cited | 205 |
Chapter 7 Henry David Thoreau The Question of Political Engagement | 87 |
Chapter 8 William Lloyd Garrison From Disunionist to Lincoln Emancipationist | 105 |
Index | 215 |
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