In Victory of Law, Deak Nabers examines developing ideas about the nature of law as reflected in literary and political writing before, during, and after the American Civil War. Nabers traces the evolution of antislavery thought from its pre-war opposition to the constitutional order of the young nation to its ultimate elevation of the U.S. Constitution as an expression of the ideal of justice--an ideal embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment.
Nabers shows how the intellectual history of the Fourteenth Amendment was rooted in literary sources--including Herman Melville's...
In Victory of Law, Deak Nabers examines developing ideas about the nature of law as reflected in literary and political writing before, duri...