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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... Republicans and conservative enough to gain the votes of several War Democrats.5 The proposed amendment then ground its way through Congress until its ratification in 1865. The Senate had passed the proposed amendment in 1864, but ...
... Republicans, such as Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri, recognized that slavery had “curse[d] the country” and brought “untold miseries.”10 The 1864 and 1865 congressional debates on the proposed amendment indicate that many of the ...
... Republicans.12 Further in chapter 6, I compare the civil rights value of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Commerce Clause. Congress has enacted civil rights legislation, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, pursuant to its authority to ...
... Republicans, who advanced the Thirteenth Amendment through Congress and, later, through state ratification. But the founding generation of American revolutionaries lived with the contradictory promises of civil freedom and property ...
... Republican Party likewise understood the Fifth Amendment's commitment to natural rights as a guarantee against the spread of slavery. Accordingly, the 1860 Republican platform stated that “the normal condition of all the territory of ...
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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