A legal history of the Civil war and Reconstruction, a nation of rights, Laura F. Edwards, Duke University
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A legal history of the Civil war and Reconstruction, a nation of rights, Laura F. Edwards, Duke University
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A legal history of the Civil war and Reconstruction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
889577465
Responsibility statement
Laura F. Edwards, Duke University
Series statement
New histories of American law
Sub title
a nation of rights
Summary
"Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation of Rights explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal innovations of the era. Change, however, permeated all levels of the legal system, altering Americans' relationship to the law and allowing them to move popular conceptions of justice into the ambit of government policy. The results linked Americans to the nation through individual rights, which were extended to more people and, as a result of new claims, were reimagined to cover a wider array of issues. But rights had limits in what they could accomplish, particularly when it came to the collective goals that so many ordinary Americans advocated. Ultimately, Laura F. Edwards argues that this new nation of rights offered up promises that would prove difficult to sustain."--Publisher's description
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- The United States and Its Use of the People -- The Confederacy and Its Legal Contradictions -- Enslaved Americans, Emancipation, and the Future Legal Order -- The Federal Government and the Reconstruction of the Legal Order -- The Possibilities of Rights -- The Power of Law and the Limits of Rights -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic Essay
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- African Americans + Legal status, laws, etc
- Derecho -- Estados Unidos -- Historia -- Siglo 19
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Civil rights + History -- 19th century
- Law -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Estados Unidos -- Historia -- Guerra Civil, 1861-1865 -- Legislación
- Afroamericanos + Situación legal + Historia -- Siglo 19
- Civil rights
- History
- Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
- Derechos civiles + Historia -- Siglo 19
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Law and legislation
- African Americans + Legal status, laws, etc + History -- 19th century
- 1800-1899
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- Legislation
- United States
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Sezessionskrieg
- Recht
- Reconstrucción (Historia E.E.U.U., 1865-1877)
- Law
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- Subject22
- African Americans + Legal status, laws, etc
- Derecho -- Estados Unidos -- Historia -- Siglo 19
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Civil rights + History -- 19th century
- Law -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Estados Unidos -- Historia -- Guerra Civil, 1861-1865 -- Legislación
- Afroamericanos + Situación legal + Historia -- Siglo 19
- Civil rights
- History
- Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
- Derechos civiles + Historia -- Siglo 19
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Law and legislation
- African Americans + Legal status, laws, etc + History -- 19th century
- 1800-1899
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- Legislation
- United States
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Sezessionskrieg
- Recht
- Reconstrucción (Historia E.E.U.U., 1865-1877)
- Law
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- Author1
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