Free in the world : American slavery and constitutional failure /

Free in the world : American slavery and constitutional failure /

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Author / Creator:Brandon, Mark E. author
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998.
Description:xviii, 248 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Constitutional history -- United States.
Constitutional law -- United States -- Philosophy.
Constitutional history.
Constitutional law -- Philosophy.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2994041
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ISBN:0691015813 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-237) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Constitutionalism, History, and Constitutional Failure
  • Chapter 2. Foundings, Myths, and Constitutional Division
  • Chapter 3. Interpretive Authority and Constitutional Division, Part
  • Chapter 4. Interpretive Authority and Constitutional Division, Part
  • Chapter 5. Lincoln, Douglas, and the Illusion of Division
  • Chapter 6. Constitutional Autonomy, Discourse, and Failure
  • Chapter 7. No Exit? Secession and Constitutionalism
  • Chapter 8. Remaking America: Reconstruction and Constitutional Failure
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Cases
  • General Index
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