Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition.

By: Dyer, Justin BuckleyMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (209 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139218047Subject(s): Antislavery movements -- United States | Constitutional history -- United States | Natural law -- Influence | Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional TraditionDDC classification: 342.73087 LOC classification: KF4545.S5 .D94 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Slavery and the Laws and Rights of Nature -- Classical Natural Law -- Modern Natural Rights -- 1: Introduction: The Apple of Gold -- Slavery and the Contradictions of the American Founding -- The Lincolnian Interpretation -- The Death of Natural-Law Constitutionalism -- Aspirationalism and Constitutional Interpretation -- 2: Somerset and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition -- Anglo-American Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Slavery -- The Somerset Judgment -- Antislavery Constitutionalism after the Closing of the Slave Trades -- The Conservative Impulse of the 1820s -- Constitutionalism Amid "What is Passing in the World" -- 3: Constitutional Disharmony in The Antelope and La Amistad -- Fact against Right -- Perverted Sentiment and the Disharmony of Human Nature -- The Antelope and La Amistad -- La Amistad and the Disharmonic Constitution -- The Law of Nature in a Nation of Laws -- 4: Constitutional Construction in Prigg and Dred Scott -- The Slavery of Politics -- The Dred Scott Case -- Constitutional Construction and Legal Injustice -- Constitutional Aspirations in Dred Scott -- Constitutional Aspirations in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates -- Nature and Property in Dred Scott -- Nature and Property in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates -- Dred Scott and the Jurisprudence of John Mclean -- 5: Natural Law, Providence, and Lincoln's Constitutional Statesmanship -- Lincoln the Statesman -- The Constitution in the Public Mind -- Contemporary Challenges to Lincoln's Statesmanship -- The Limits of Constitutional Statesmanship -- 6: Public Reason and the Wrong of Slavery -- The Idea of Public Reason -- The Moral and Constitutional Wrong of Dred Scott.
Frederick Douglass's Case for the Antislavery Constitution -- Revisiting Rawls's Theory -- 7: Conclusion: The Heritage of the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition -- Index.
Summary: A succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War.
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Intro -- Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Slavery and the Laws and Rights of Nature -- Classical Natural Law -- Modern Natural Rights -- 1: Introduction: The Apple of Gold -- Slavery and the Contradictions of the American Founding -- The Lincolnian Interpretation -- The Death of Natural-Law Constitutionalism -- Aspirationalism and Constitutional Interpretation -- 2: Somerset and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition -- Anglo-American Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Slavery -- The Somerset Judgment -- Antislavery Constitutionalism after the Closing of the Slave Trades -- The Conservative Impulse of the 1820s -- Constitutionalism Amid "What is Passing in the World" -- 3: Constitutional Disharmony in The Antelope and La Amistad -- Fact against Right -- Perverted Sentiment and the Disharmony of Human Nature -- The Antelope and La Amistad -- La Amistad and the Disharmonic Constitution -- The Law of Nature in a Nation of Laws -- 4: Constitutional Construction in Prigg and Dred Scott -- The Slavery of Politics -- The Dred Scott Case -- Constitutional Construction and Legal Injustice -- Constitutional Aspirations in Dred Scott -- Constitutional Aspirations in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates -- Nature and Property in Dred Scott -- Nature and Property in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates -- Dred Scott and the Jurisprudence of John Mclean -- 5: Natural Law, Providence, and Lincoln's Constitutional Statesmanship -- Lincoln the Statesman -- The Constitution in the Public Mind -- Contemporary Challenges to Lincoln's Statesmanship -- The Limits of Constitutional Statesmanship -- 6: Public Reason and the Wrong of Slavery -- The Idea of Public Reason -- The Moral and Constitutional Wrong of Dred Scott.

Frederick Douglass's Case for the Antislavery Constitution -- Revisiting Rawls's Theory -- 7: Conclusion: The Heritage of the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition -- Index.

A succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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