Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates : with a New PrefaceCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his re-entry into politics in 1854 through his Senate campaign against Douglas in 1858. "Crisis of the House Divided has shaped the thought of a generation of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War scholars."--Mark E. Needly, Jr., Civil War History "An important book about one of the great episodes in the history of the sectional controversy. It breaks new ground and opens a new view of Lincoln's significance as a political thinker."--T. Harry Williams, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences "A searching and provocative analysis of the issues confronted and the ideas expounded in the great debates. . . . A book which displays such learning and insight that it cannot fail to excite the admiration even of scholars who disagree with its major arguments and conclusions."--D. E. Fehrenbacher, American Historical Review |
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... become the only means of honorable resolution . It seemed to me that the proper way to explicate a debate was to adopt , however provisionally , the viewpoint of the debaters themselves . And it seemed that the Socratic method — and in ...
... becomes political au- thority . The Lincoln - Douglas debates are concerned , in the main , with one great practical and one great theoretical question . The practical question was resolved into the constitutional issue of whether ...
... become the ultimate source of change in the regime . I might perhaps have rejoiced somewhat more than I did in the contemplation of this power had it seemed that its exercise had been salutary . But changes gener- ated by this class ...
... become the ground of the scientific outlook , and the stately , ordered universe of the Founders seems to lie in the word " equality . " Modern social science , at least in its American vari- ant , finds itself committed to equality ...
... which white men were bound to respect — had now become the hallmark of official liber- alism . Nowhere in the report is there any awareness that Lincoln had opposed both Taney and Douglas ( among others ) 12 INTRODUCTION.
Contents
1958 The Crisis in Historical Judgment | 19 |
1858 Lincoln versus Douglas The Alternatives | 28 |
THE CASE FOR DOUGLAS | 39 |
Slavery | 41 |
Manifest Destiny | 63 |
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise I The Legal Power and Practical Impotence of Federal Prohibitions of Slavery in the Territories | 104 |
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise II Did the Compromise of 1850 Supersede the Missouri Compromise? | 133 |
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise III What Douglas Intended on January 4 1854 | 147 |
The Political Tendency toward Slavery Expansion | 294 |
The Intrinsic Evil of the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise | 302 |
The Universal Meaning of the Declaration of Independence | 308 |
The Form and Substance of Political Freedom in the Modern World | 330 |
Popular Sovereignty True and False | 347 |
The Meaning of Equality Abstract and Practical | 363 |
The Natural Limits of Slavery Expansion | 387 |
Did the Republicans Abandon Lincolns Principles after the Election of 1860? | 400 |
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise IV Tragedy The Extremes Crush the Mean | 171 |
THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF A YOUNG WHIG | 181 |
The Teaching Concerning Political Salvation | 183 |
The Teaching Concerning Political Moderation | 236 |
THE CASE FOR LINCOLN | 273 |
The Legal Tendency toward Slavery Expansion | 275 |
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