Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition

"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"--

List of contents

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 Dred 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.

About the author

Justin Buckley Dyer holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Oklahoma and an MA and Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas, Austin. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia. His research has been published in Polity, the Journal of Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics and Perspectives on Political Science.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Buckley Dyer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107454354
• ISBN: 978-1-107-45435-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Constitution: government & the state, Slavery and abolition of slavery, American Civil War, Constitution: government and the state