Abraham Lincoln and liberal democracy
By: edited by Nicholas Buccola
Series: American political thought
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780700622160; 9780700622177
Subjects: Politics and government; Philosophy; Democracy; Political and social views
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Nicholas Buccola; title: Part I. Lincoln and democracy; title: Prosperity and tyranny in Lincoln's Lyceum Address / John Burt; title: Providentialism and politics: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and the problem of democracy / Michael Zuckert; title: Part II. Lincoln and liberty; title: Lincoln and the ethics of emancipation: universalism, nationalism, exceptionalism / Dorothy Ross; title: What if honest abe was telling the truth? Natural rights, race, and legalism in the political thought of Lincoln / Nicholas Buccola; title: Part III. Lincoln and equality; title: "The vital element of the Republican Party": antislavery, nativism, and Lincoln / Bruce Levine; title: Lincoln's competing political loyalties: antislavery, union, and the constitution / Manisha Sinha; title: Part IV. Lincoln as a liberal democratic statesman; title: Four roads to emancipation: Lincoln, the law, and the proclamation / Allen Guelzo; title: Lincoln's Kantian Republic / Steven B. Smith.