Title Dred Scott and the problem of constitutional evil / Mark A. Graber.

Publication Info.	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
	Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The lessons of Dred Scott -- The constitutional politics of slavery -- Compromising with evil.
Summary	A new interpretation of the constitutional law and politics of slavery. The Taney Court's conclusions that former slaves could not be American citizens and that slavery could not be banned in American territories was constitutionally sound, contrary to many opinions.
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Subject	Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
	Scott, Dred, 1809-1858.
	Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
	Slavery -- Law and legislation.
	United States.
	History.
	Slavery -- United States -- Legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
	Slavery.
	Slavery -- Legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
	Constitutional history -- United States.
	Constitutional history.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Trials, litigation, etc.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Graber, Mark A. Dred Scott and the problem of constitutional evil. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521861659 9780521861656 (DLC) 2006005050 (OCoLC)64084588
ISBN	9780511226397 (electronic book)
	051122639X (electronic book)
	9780511805370 (electronic book)
	0511805373 (electronic book)
	9780511225208
	0511225202
	0511224532
	9780511224539
	0521861659 (Cloth)
	9780521861656

Title Dred Scott and the problem of constitutional evil / Mark A. Graber.

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