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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... Party's platform asserted that the Fifth Amendment's protections for life, liberty, and property were based on the Declaration's recognition that “all men are endowed” with inalienable rights. Their 1844 platform further declared that ...
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. Republican Party adopt the position that slavery had to be eradicated throughout the nation and shifted from relying on the Fifth Amendment to calling for constitutional change.6 The Fifth Amendment had ...
... parties.18 When the Thirteenth Amendment did away with any incidents of servitude, it prescribed the arbitrary interference with family life. The freedom it created ended family coercion and provided federal protection for parental ...
... Party come to power in the intervening years, led by abolitionists like Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, but it also elected a president, Abraham Lincoln, who eventually became willing to alter the Constitution, making future ...
... Party, which gained political office on a platform of protecting free labor. In many ways, Lincoln's 1860 victory of the presidency was a response to Dred Scott. The Republican Party platform called for the abolition of slavery in the ...
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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