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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... True Ground upon Which to Meet Slavery,” Free Soilism is lame, halt and blind, while it battles against the spread of slavery, and admits its right to exist anywhere. . .. There is much reason in the logic of the late John C. Calhoun ...
... True Ground upon Which to Meet Slavery,” Free Soilism is lame, halt and blind, while it battles against the spread of slavery, and admits its right to exist anywhere. . .. There is much reason in the logic of the late John C. Calhoun ...
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... true of Douglas's supporters as it was of Lincoln's that they were overwhelmingly opposed to slavery in principle; but Douglas encouraged them to view Negro slavery as an exception to which the principle did not apply. Both Lincoln and ...
... true of Douglas's supporters as it was of Lincoln's that they were overwhelmingly opposed to slavery in principle; but Douglas encouraged them to view Negro slavery as an exception to which the principle did not apply. Both Lincoln and ...
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... true. The maintenance of Negro slavery thus depends in the last analysis upon the possession of superior might by the class of white masters, rather than upon any natural differences. The interlocutor begins with a false but, in a sense ...
... true. The maintenance of Negro slavery thus depends in the last analysis upon the possession of superior might by the class of white masters, rather than upon any natural differences. The interlocutor begins with a false but, in a sense ...
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... true in law and politics as it is in philosophy that “the claim of intellectual superiority [is] the only serious argument in favor of slavery,”19 Lincoln's task would have been simpler than it was. As a constitutional institution ...
... true in law and politics as it is in philosophy that “the claim of intellectual superiority [is] the only serious argument in favor of slavery,”19 Lincoln's task would have been simpler than it was. As a constitutional institution ...
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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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