"Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition is a succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Slavery and the Laws and Rights of Nature; Classical Natural Law; Modern Natural Rights; 1: Introduction: The Apple of Gold; Slavery and the Contradictions of the American Founding; The Lincolnian Interpretation; The Death of Natural-Law Constitutionalism; Aspirationalism and Constitutional Interpretation; 2: Somerset and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition; Anglo-American Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Slavery; The Somerset Judgment.
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