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- -Serves as a roadmap for navigating ongoing tensions that persist in twenty-first-century liberalism.- - Mark E. Kann, author of Punishmen, Prisons, and Patriarchy

- -Amplifies our understanding of Douglass's normative political imagination.- - Thomas A. Spragens, Jr., author of Civic Liberalism

- -Well-conceived, well-researched, and well-argued.... A balanced, judicious, innovative case for Douglass's enduring vitality.- - Peter C. Myers, author of Frederick Douglass

- -A nuanced portrait that illuminates both Douglass and his place in American...

Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless questions in politics. What is the moral basis of popular sovereignty? What are the proper limits on the will of the majority? When and why should we revere the law? What are we to do when the letter of the law is at odds with what we believe justice requires? How is our devotion to a particular nation related to our commitment to universal ideals? What is the best way to protect the right to liberty for all people? The contributors to this volume, a...