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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... Supreme Court Abandonment of Reconstruction 61 1. Early Opinions 62 2. Relinquishment of Thirteenth Amendment Principles 67 C. A Ray of Hope: Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer 82 D. Summing Up 92 4 Summing Up and Looking Ahead 94 part ii 5 ...
... Supreme Court decisions substantially diminished the amendment's significance in achieving genuine liberation. The Court did not revisit the amendment's meaning until 1968, during the heyday of the Civil Rights movement. In Jones v ...
... Supreme Court decisions, which I analyze in the third chapter, thwarted the hopes born in the wake of the amendment's ratification. Only in 1968, when it decided Jones, did the court reinstate the amendment as the bastion of viable ...
... Supreme Court have rarely relied on the Thirteenth Amendment for protecting the fundamental right to liberty. They have preferred to locate a variety of liberty rights in the Due Process and Commerce Clauses. Part of my contention in ...
... Supreme Court has recently significantly diminished this congressional power, which has further elevated the relevance of a Thirteenth Amendment litigation strategy.13 Moreover, I show that the Thirteenth Amendment has two advantages ...
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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