Natural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition
By: Justin Buckley Dyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107013636
Subjects: Constitutional history; Natural law; Law and legislation; Influence; Slavery; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; Antislavery movements
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Prologue: slavery and the laws and rights of nature; 2. Introduction: the apple of gold; 3. Somerset and the antislavery constitutional tradition; 4. Constitutional disharmony in The Antelope and La Amistad; 5. Constitutional construction in Prigg and Dredd Scott; 6. Natural law, providence, and Lincoln's constitutional statesmanship; 7. Public reason and the wrong of slavery; 8. Conclusion: the heritage of the antislavery constitutional tradition.