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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... argument for popular sovereignty was stronger than Lincoln's argument for congressional exclusion of slavery from the ter- ritories? This is a question for political scientists rather than for histo- rians. Harry V. Jaffa has said of ...
... argument for popular sovereignty was stronger than Lincoln's argument for congressional exclusion of slavery from the ter- ritories? This is a question for political scientists rather than for histo- rians. Harry V. Jaffa has said of ...
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... arguments , but they could not make their final appeal to the authority of the Constitution — the very thing that was in dispute . Like the aboli- tionists , they had to argue outside the Constitution . According to George Fitzhugh ...
... arguments , but they could not make their final appeal to the authority of the Constitution — the very thing that was in dispute . Like the aboli- tionists , they had to argue outside the Constitution . According to George Fitzhugh ...
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... argument of Lincoln's opportunism in a less noble sense—his success at appearing to have reconciled what were in fact irreconcilably opposed points of view on the slavery issue—has been made famous by Richard Hofstadter. As Hofstadter ...
... argument of Lincoln's opportunism in a less noble sense—his success at appearing to have reconciled what were in fact irreconcilably opposed points of view on the slavery issue—has been made famous by Richard Hofstadter. As Hofstadter ...
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... argument as being , in the view of many ( though not necessarily himself ) , “ an elaborate rationale . ” If the description is applicable to Fitzhugh , one might justly say , “ Rest in peace . ” But consider these lines from an 1855 ...
... argument as being , in the view of many ( though not necessarily himself ) , “ an elaborate rationale . ” If the description is applicable to Fitzhugh , one might justly say , “ Rest in peace . ” But consider these lines from an 1855 ...
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... argument has commenced. One set of ideas will govern and control after awhile the civilized world. Slavery will ... arguing that from principle the enslavement of either whites or blacks was justifiable and right.” According to Herndon ...
... argument has commenced. One set of ideas will govern and control after awhile the civilized world. Slavery will ... arguing that from principle the enslavement of either whites or blacks was justifiable and right.” According to Herndon ...
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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