The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy During the Civil WarAmericans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a view constituted the weaker side of an ongoing argument about government sovereignty and individual rights. What brought about this drastic shift in legal and political thoug... |
Contents
Legislative Property Confiscation before | 1 |
Radical Property Confiscation in | 11 |
The Conservative Assault | 48 |
The Moderate | 75 |
The Confederate Sequestration | 118 |
The Ordeal of Sequestration | 170 |
Civil War Confiscation in | 220 |
The Limits | 271 |
Front Cover Back Cover Back Cover | 303 |
Flap | 361 |
Index | 367 |
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