Lincoln and the triumph of the nation constitutional conflict in the American Civil War /
"The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confede...
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2011.
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| Serier: | Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
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| Online adgang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Secession and anarchy : Lincoln's view of the constitution and the nation
- Habeas corpus, the nation, and the presidency
- The Emancipation Proclamation : the triumph of nationalism over racism and the constitution
- Soldiers in the courtroom
- The nation in the courts : the least dangerous branch fights the civil war
- Secession : deratifying the constitution
- The police state of Richmond
- State rights in the confederacy.