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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... relied upon it to pass several laws that were primarily aimed at protecting newly freed people. After Reconstruction, however, a series of Supreme Court decisions substantially diminished the amendment's significance in achieving ...
... relied on the Thirteenth Amendment for protecting the fundamental right to 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 ...
... 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 federal ...
... relied on eugenic theories about supposed black inferiority to justify slavery even though the Declaration proclaimed its support for the principle of universal equality.5 The Declaration's wording was so general, without any ...
... relying on the Fifth Amendment to calling for constitutional change.6 The Fifth Amendment had proven itself to be a two-edged sword, as proslavery forces also relied upon it. Nineteenth century apologists for the expansion of slavery ...
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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