Abolitionism and American Law

ISBN-13: 9780815331094 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 410 str.

John R. McKivigan; John R. McKivigan

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Reproduces 16 articles from their original publication between the middle 1960s and the middle 1990s exploring legal aspects and consequences of the movement to end slavery. The topics include the compromise of 1787; legal positivism, abolitionist litigation, and the New Jersey slave case of 1845; t

Spis treści

Baronet, Randy E. Was Slavery Unconstitutional before the Thirteenth Amendment?: Lysander Spooner's Theory of Interpretation. Pacific Law Journal 28 (1997); Ernst, Daniel R. Legal Positivism, Abolitionist Litigation, and the New Jersey Slave Cases of 1845. Law and History Review 4 (1986); Finkelman, Paul. The Kidnapping of John Davis and the Adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793. Journal of Southern History 56 (1990); Richards, David A.J. Abolitionist Political and Constitutional Theory and the Reconstruction Amendments. Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 25 (1992); Wiecek, William M. Slavery and Abolition before the United States Supreme Court, 1820- 1860. Journal of American History 65 (1978); Williams, Sandra Boyd. 'The Indiana Supreme Court and the Struggle against Slavery. Indiana Law Review 30 (1997).

O autorze

John R. McKivigan