Crisis of the house divided
Subtitle: an interpretation of the issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
By: Harry V. Jaffa.
Edition: 50th anniversary ed.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780226391182
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Political career before 1861; Douglas, Stephen Arnold, -- 1813-1861; Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858; United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1958: the crisis in historical judgment; title: 1858: Lincoln versus Douglas: the alternatives; title: Slavery; title: Manifest destiny; title: The repeal of the Missouri Compromise I: the legal power and practical impotence of federal prohibitions of slavery in the territories; title: The repeal of the Missouri Compromise II: did the Compromise of 1850 "supersede" the Missouri Compromise?; title: The repeal of the Missouri Compromise III: what Douglas intended on January 4, 1854; title: The repeal of the Missouri Compromise IV: tragedy: the extremes crush the mean; title: The teaching concerning political salvation; title: The teaching concerning political moderation; title: The legal tendency toward slavery expansion; title: The political tendency toward slavery expansion; title: The intrinsic evil of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; title: The universal meaning of the Declaration of Independence; title: The form and substance of political freedom in the modern world; title: Popular sovereignty: true and false; title: The meaning of equality: abstract and political; title: The "natural limits" of slavery expansion; title: Did the Republicans abandon Lincoln's principles after the election of 1860?; title: The end of manifest destiny; title: Appendix I: some of the historical background to the Lincoln-Douglas debates; title: Appendix II: some notes on the Dred Scott decision.