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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... Thirteenth Amendment and American freedom : a legal history / Alexander Tsesis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–8147–8276–0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Slavery—Law and legislation—United States—History. 2 ...
... Thirteenth Amendment abolished the political structure that was linked to slavery. The amendment also changed the dynamic between state and federal sovereignty, granting Congress the authority to protect civil rights. In fact, I argue ...
... amendment as one of that congressional session's first bills. He announced his intent to submit an amendment ... Thirteenth Amendment, the Reconstruction Congress relied upon it to pass several laws that were primarily aimed at ...
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. Reconstruction amendments, providing liberty rights protections in cases the Fourteenth Amendment does not reach.7 Literature on the Thirteenth Amendment is relatively sparse, and only recently have ...
... amendment's ratification. While the Civil War raged in the divided country, the Thirteenth Amendment's framers argued the desirability and the reach of the proposed constitutional alteration. The congressional debates contain precious ...
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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