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Most historians accept the proposition that in the first two years of the Civil War the North's primary aim was to reestablish the Union and the Constitution, not to emancipate slaves. But when northerners began clamoring for the confiscation of southern land and slaves as a punitive, military, and revenue-raising tactic, the constitutional right to personal property, particularly human property, came into question. In From Property to Person, Silvana R. Siddali traces the resulting discourse among northern voters, politicians, military leaders, and President Lincoln, elucidating how emancipation ultimately became an essential political cause in the North. Siddali explains how public and political debates in the North over southerners' private property rights set in motion the first major reconsideration of the Constitution since the Bill of Rights. Fundamental questions arose, and through the two Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862, she argues, Americans worked out a conundrum between property rights and constitutionally protected civil liberties. The right of all human beings to freedom now trumped white southerners' right to human property. In a rich analysis of editorials, pamphlets, letters, and congressional speeches, From Property to Person reveals the swift transformation in rhetoric concerning the Constitution and its protection of private property rights. The Confiscation Acts paved the way for the Reconstruction Amendments by fostering support for a broader reach by the federal government into private property rights and envisioning a new interpretation of an individual citizen's rights and obligations.

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• Plný název: From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861--1862
• Autor: Silvana R. Siddali, T. Michael Parrish
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 312
• EAN: 9780807130421
• ISBN: 0807130427
• ID: 11527794
• Nakladatelství: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Hmotnost: 614 g
• Rozměry: 236 × 156 × 32 mm
• Datum vydání: March 2005

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