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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... liberty that it finds to be rationally related to slavery. The amendment ended all aspects of the South's peculiar institution, which spread far beyond plantation husbandry into interstate commerce, government fiscal policy, and private ...
... 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 protections to ...
... deprivations of constitutional freedom. It is this dual capacity that makes the Thirteenth Amendment a powerful complement among the Reconstruction amendments, providing liberty rights protections in cases the Fourteenth Preface | 3.
A Legal History Alexander Tsesis. Reconstruction amendments, providing liberty rights protections in cases the Fourteenth Amendment does not reach.7 Literature on the Thirteenth Amendment is relatively sparse, and only recently have ...
... liberty. They have preferred to locate a variety of liberty rights in the Due Process and Commerce Clauses. Part of my contention in chapter 6 is that the Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendments are complementary. While the former only ...
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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