Lincoln, the law, and presidential leadership /
"From his early years as a small-town lawyer through his rise to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln respected the rule of law. Secession and the Civil War, however, led him to expand presidential power in ways that often put him at odds with the Supreme Court and Congress. In this incisive essay collec...
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| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Carbondale, Illinois :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2015]
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Introduction / Charles M. Hubbard
- Abraham Lincoln : lawyer, leader, President / Daniel W. Stowell
- Lincoln and citizenship / Mark E. Steiner
- Lincoln's divided house : the Constitution and the Union / Charles M. Hubbard
- Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime / Frank J. Williams
- "I claim not to have controlled events" : Lincoln leadership, and the Emanicipation struggle / Edna Greene Medford
- The Quality of mercy : Abraham Lincoln and the presidential power to pardon / Ron Soodalter
- Lincoln and the law of war / Burrus M. Carnaham
- Lincoln an the potter Congressional Committee concerning the loyalty of government employees / Natalie Sweet
- Equality, statesmanship, and the Lincoln image in progressive presidential rhetoric / Jason R. Jividen.