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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... never altogether disappeared. On one hand, emancipation came about through a proclamation, “warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity,” that, to cite Richard Hofstadter's well-known description,“had all the moral grandeur of ...
... never altogether disappeared. On one hand, emancipation came about through a proclamation, “warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity,” that, to cite Richard Hofstadter's well-known description,“had all the moral grandeur of ...
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... never debated an abolitionist or a southern states' rights man in the formal way that he debated Stephen Douglas, but by his words and deeds he made sufficiently clear his view of their positions, as they did their views of his. Crisis ...
... never debated an abolitionist or a southern states' rights man in the formal way that he debated Stephen Douglas, but by his words and deeds he made sufficiently clear his view of their positions, as they did their views of his. Crisis ...
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... never had an opinion upon the subject of slavery in my life that I did not get from him.”5 The defenders of slavery were by no means averse to constitutional arguments, but they could not make their final appeal to the authority of the ...
... never had an opinion upon the subject of slavery in my life that I did not get from him.”5 The defenders of slavery were by no means averse to constitutional arguments, but they could not make their final appeal to the authority of the ...
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... never have arisen. Nor could it have arisen for Lincoln as a member of the Senate, if his candidacy for that body in 1854 or 1858 had been successful. Lincoln's moderate stance situated him between what he referred to as the “dangerous ...
... never have arisen. Nor could it have arisen for Lincoln as a member of the Senate, if his candidacy for that body in 1854 or 1858 had been successful. Lincoln's moderate stance situated him between what he referred to as the “dangerous ...
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... never conceived the idea that uniformity in the domestic institutions of the different states was either desirable or possible. They well understood that the laws and institutions which would be well adapted to the granite hills of New ...
... never conceived the idea that uniformity in the domestic institutions of the different states was either desirable or possible. They well understood that the laws and institutions which would be well adapted to the granite hills of New ...
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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