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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... Constitutional Convention of 1787 decided that the Three-Fifths Clause, the Fugitive Slave Clause, and the twenty-year protection on slave importation were more important to drafting an acceptable Constitution than including a Bill of ...
... constitutional scrutiny, such laws must be historically related to institutionalized slavery. The judiciary's role is to evaluate whether Congress overstepped its section 2 authority. Unlike the Fourteenth Amendment, which the Court has ...
... constitutional alteration. The congressional debates contain precious nuggets of wisdom that are helpful for understanding the profound change the Reconstruction Congress intended to achieve. Many Radical Republicans, such as Senator ...
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. PART I 1 Slavery and Its Social Penetration Study of constitutional law part i.
... Constitutional abolition profoundly transformed the United States from a land that tolerated racial slavery to a country whose core law protects fundamental liberties. The Thirteenth Amendment is not merely a positive prescription ...
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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