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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... society and warfare. Thus biographies and thematic studies that deal with civilians, soldiers, and political leaders are increasingly impor- tant to a larger public. This series includes books that will appeal to Civil War Roundtable ...
... society and warfare. Thus biographies and thematic studies that deal with civilians, soldiers, and political leaders are increasingly impor- tant to a larger public. This series includes books that will appeal to Civil War Roundtable ...
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... society which has disturbed us for more than half a century, which has been the only serious danger that has threatened our institutions—I say, where is the philosophy or the states- manship based on the assumption that we are to quit ...
... society which has disturbed us for more than half a century, which has been the only serious danger that has threatened our institutions—I say, where is the philosophy or the states- manship based on the assumption that we are to quit ...
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... society , but have no resting - place without it . They may be men of a certain experi- ence and discrimination , and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems , for which we sincerely thank them ; but all their wit and ...
... society , but have no resting - place without it . They may be men of a certain experi- ence and discrimination , and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems , for which we sincerely thank them ; but all their wit and ...
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... society . ” Harry V. Jaffa wrote of the Cornerstone speech in his study A New Birth of Freedom that “ no utterance of the time reveals more fully the inner truth about the impending conflict . ” The authority that Jaffa would ascribe to ...
... society . ” Harry V. Jaffa wrote of the Cornerstone speech in his study A New Birth of Freedom that “ no utterance of the time reveals more fully the inner truth about the impending conflict . ” The authority that Jaffa would ascribe to ...
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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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