The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal HistoryIn this narrative history and contextual analysis of the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery and freedom take center stage. Alexander Tsesis demonstrates how entrenched slavery was in pre-Civil War America, how central it was to the political events that resulted in the Civil War, and how it was the driving force that led to the adoption of an amendment that ultimately provided a substantive assurance of freedom for all American citizens. |
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... justice” that grants “enforceable guarantees applicable against the states of equal protection, privileges or immunities, and due process of law.” Richards seems to only credit the Thirteenth Amendment with ending coerced labor, thereby ...
... Justice Roger B. Taney, in his infamous Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) decision, found the Missouri Compromise unconstitutionally violated substantive due process: “[A]n act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his ...
... Justice, we must repudiate the enacting clauses, with Kidnapping and Slaveholding. . . . Every slaveholder in the land stands perjured in the sight of Heaven, when he swears his purpose to be, the establishment of justice—the providing ...
... Justice Thurgood Marshall attributed our current “respect for the individual freedoms and human rights” to Reconstruction and the constitutional changes that it wrought. The “momentous social transformation” to which Marshall referred ...
... Justice Story, writing for the Court, found that the 1793 act was constitutional while the Pennsylvania statute was not. The Court extended the power of owners, giving them “the entire authority,” even without state or federal ...
Contents
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End of Radical Ideals and Judicial Response | 59 |
Summing Up and Looking Ahead | 94 |
Theoretical Foundation | 101 |
Thirteenth Amendment and Constitutional Rights | 112 |
Contemporary Settings | 137 |
Conclusion | 161 |
Select Bibliography | 201 |
Index | 221 |
About the Author | 229 |
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The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History Alexander Tsesis No preview available - 2004 |