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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... authority to prevent many private and state civil rights abuses. Congress can pass any laws preventing intrusions on liberty that it finds to be rationally related to slavery. The amendment ended all aspects of the South's peculiar ...
... authority to protect civil rights. In fact, I argue that the amendment requires the federal government to protect individuals' liberty rights, both from arbitrary private and arbitrary state infringements. The Thirteenth Amendment's ...
... authority. Unlike the Fourteenth Amendment, which the Court has limited to state-sponsored discrimination, Jones iterated that the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits private and public deprivations of constitutional freedom. It is this dual ...
... authority to regulate interstate commerce. However, the Supreme Court has recently significantly diminished this congressional power, which has further elevated the relevance of a Thirteenth Amendment litigation strategy.13 Moreover, I ...
... authority to levying a ten dollar head tax for each imported slave. Even though Congress passed laws in 1818 and 1820 that severely punished participants of the slave trade, calls for reopening it continued to be heard until the Civil ...
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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