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Author Dyer, Justin Buckley, 1983-

Title Natural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition / Justin Buckley Dyer.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Summary "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.
Bibliography 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Slavery -- Law and legislation.
United States.
Constitutional history -- United States.
Constitutional history.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Antislavery movements.
Natural law -- Influence.
Natural law -- Influence.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Dyer, Justin Buckley, 1983- Natural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107013636 (DLC) 2011030291 (OCoLC)741751449
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