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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... Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates that it “was not meant to be a book about American history, except incidentally.”3 The question that Jaffa's book considers is not why Lincoln lost or won the debates in the electoral sense but ...
... Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates that it “was not meant to be a book about American history, except incidentally.”3 The question that Jaffa's book considers is not why Lincoln lost or won the debates in the electoral sense but ...
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... issue a proclamation of emancipation . This is an illustration of what Lord Charnwood calls Lincoln's “ wise and nobly calculated opportunism . ” If Lincoln had not been in office he could not have issued the Emancipation Proclamation ...
... issue a proclamation of emancipation . This is an illustration of what Lord Charnwood calls Lincoln's “ wise and nobly calculated opportunism . ” If Lincoln had not been in office he could not have issued the Emancipation Proclamation ...
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... issue—has been made famous by Richard Hofstadter. As Hofstadter presents it, these opposites were not moral and legal justice: Lincoln's success was actually due to his having taken the slavery question “out of the realm of moral and ...
... issue—has been made famous by Richard Hofstadter. As Hofstadter presents it, these opposites were not moral and legal justice: Lincoln's success was actually due to his having taken the slavery question “out of the realm of moral and ...
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... issue is made throughout the world on the gen- eral subject of slavery in the abstract. The argument has commenced. One set of ideas will govern and control after awhile the civilized world. Slavery will every where be abolished, or ...
... issue is made throughout the world on the gen- eral subject of slavery in the abstract. The argument has commenced. One set of ideas will govern and control after awhile the civilized world. Slavery will every where be abolished, or ...
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... issue for partisan ends. As he had done in 1852, Lincoln pointed to widening divisions in Americans' political house as evidence of the seriousness of the crisis.5 At the same time, he rebutted the accusation that by joining with radi ...
... issue for partisan ends. As he had done in 1852, Lincoln pointed to widening divisions in Americans' political house as evidence of the seriousness of the crisis.5 At the same time, he rebutted the accusation that by joining with radi ...
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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