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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... interests trumped their 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 ...
... interests. The delegates to the Philadelphia 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 ...
... interests. Relying on an amendment passed for the express purpose of ending oppression has an important communicative value that commercial regulations do not. In conclusion, I touch upon several current issues. First, I argue that the ...
... interests and regarded its protection to be government's chief purpose. The Fifth Amendment's Just Compensation Clause provided the proslavery camp with a bastion for fortifying the peculiar institution against congressional ...
... interest in life and liberty. Meanwhile, proslavery rhetoric, which the Taney Court accepted, relied on the natural or vested property rights claim that the federal government could not trump state control over private economic interests ...
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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