The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding

ISBN-13: 9781108496124 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 350 str.

Simon Gilhooley

Opis

Locates the origins of the modern sense of a Founder's Constitution in Antebellum debates over slavery in the nation's capital.

Recenzje

'This book is convincing and profound: a real tour de force. Gilhooley is immensely clarifying on points of history, political theory, and legal/constitutional development precisely because he integrates them. His argument that originalism emerged as a response to the exigencies of antebellum debates will be a touchstone for a very long time.' David Waldstreicher, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The Constitutional Imaginaries of the Missouri Crisis; 2. The Declaration of Independence and Black Citizenship in the 1820s; 3. Abolitionism and the Constitution in the 1830s; 4. The Slaveholding South and the Constitutionalization of Slavery; 5. Theories of the Federal Compact in the 1830s; 6. Slavery, The District of Columbia, and the Constitution; 7. The Congressional Crisis of 1836; 8: The Compact and the Election of 1836; 9. The Afterlife of the Compact of 1836; Conclusion.