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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... slaves' basic interests of receiving wages, making parental decisions, choosing spouses, or traveling off plantations. The reach of the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition against the incidents of involuntary servitude extends to 1 Preface.
... decision making. The 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 ...
... decision to use readily identifiable model language made the first section's wording ambiguous enough to retain the ... decisions substantially diminished the amendment's significance in achieving genuine liberation. The Court did not ...
... 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 sources for civil ...
... decision, found the Missouri Compromise unconstitutionally violated substantive due process: “[A]n act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property, merely because he came himself or brought his ...
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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