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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... individuals' humanity and denying them the opportunity to live a good life. Powerful forces in the United States, who imprinted the Constitution with their views, placed a greater value on property rights than on the civil rights of a ...
... individuals' liberty rights, both from arbitrary private and arbitrary state infringements. The Thirteenth Amendment's idealistic roots lie in the Declaration of Independence, which left the task of fleshing out national civil rights ...
... Individuals within a free and equal society have the right to pursue self-defined goals, so long as they do not arbitrarily ... individual autonomy, and consequentialist, because it aims to achieve a better society. This concept involves ...
... individual freedoms and human rights” to Reconstruction and the constitutional changes that it wrought. The “momentous social transformation” to which Marshall referred began with the emancipatory power of the Thirteenth Amendment.14 To ...
... amendment signaled a new reliance on Congress to protect individual rights and legislate for the general welfare. Freedom reemerged On the Road to Ratification | 37 B Congressional Debates on the Thirteenth Amendment's Meaning.
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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