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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... place an emphasis on economic 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 ...
... places, Patrick Henry embodied the revolutionary project in his pithy statement “Give me liberty or give me death,” and Thomas Paine believed America to be “the place where the principle of universal freedom could take root.”1 ...
... place subject to their jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. This joint resolution, as Senator Charles Sumner explained after it was read to the Senate, would cover “every ...
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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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