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Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
Book by Herman Belz; Fordham University Press, 1998
Subjects: African Americans--Civil Rights--History--19th Century, Constitutional History--United States, Equality Before The Law--United States--History--19th Century, Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Views On The Constitution, Reconstruction, United States--Politics And Government--1861-1865
...century. 6. Reconstruction. I. Title...measures taken at the start of the...than those of a constitutional ruler." Yet...despotic powers to Lincoln, he observed...Dunning, Essays on the Civil War...endorsement of constitutional dictatorship...12 Outside the "lost cause" tradition carried on by unrepentant...Randall, "Lincoln in the Role...
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Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809-1865 - Vol. 2
Book by Earl Schenck Miers, William E. Baringer; Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Chronology
...Day 1849-1860 Lincoln Day by Day A CHRONOLOGY 1809-1865 EARL SCHENCK MIERS Editor-in-Chief VOLUME, II: 1849-1860 WILLIAM E. BARINGER Washington : 1960 LINCOLN SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION Advisory Committee...Sesquicentennial Commission Ex officio members: The President of the United States The President of...Springfield, Illinois. CW -- The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , Roy P. Basler, Editor, Rutgers; 1953...Association, Springfield, Illinois. Files and records on deposit at IHi. IU--University of Illinois Library...resolution whereby House would purchase copies of The Constitution , by William Hickey, to be distributed to libraries...
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Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809-1865 - Vol. 2
Book by Earl Schenck Miers, William E. Baringer; Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Chronology
...1849-1860 Lincoln Day by Day A CHRONOLOGY 1809-1865 EARL SCHENCK MIERS Editor-in-Chief VOLUME II : 1849-1860 WILLIAM E. BARINGER Washington: 1960 LINCOLN SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION Advisory Committee L...Sesquicentennial Commission Ex officio members: The President of the United States The President of...Springfield, Illinois. CW -- The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , Roy P. Basler, Editor, Rutgers; 1953...Association, Springfield, Illinois. Files and records on deposit at IHi. IU -- University of Illinois Library...resolution whereby House would purchase copies of The Constitution , by William Hickey, to be distributed to libraries...
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Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy
Book by George P. Fletcher; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: Constitutional Amendments--United States, Constitutional History--United States, Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Political And Social Views, United States--Politics And Government--1861-1865
...CONSTITUTION The Civil War called forth a new constitutional order. At the heart of this postbellum legal order lay the Reconstruction Amendments the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, ratified in the years 1865 to 1870. The principles...
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The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Book by Mark E. Neely Jr.; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Civil Rights--United States--History--19th Century, Habeas Corpus--United States--History--19th Century, Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Views On Civil Rights, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Law And Legislation
...from his own. In fact, constitutional arguments did not interest Lincoln much; he would not himself...of administration policy on civil liberties for almost...opinion was completed on the day after Lincolns message...The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln reprints the text...Frederick City at all. The views of each disunion member...laws of war as well as for the United States Constitution. On August 25, 1861, for example...
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Reynolds V. United States: The Historical Construction of Constitutional Reality
Journal article by Donald L. Drakeman; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 21, 2004
Subjects: Church and state--Laws, regulations and rules, Constitutional history--Evaluation, Freedom of religion--Laws, regulations and rules, Reynolds v. United States--98 U.S. 145 (1878)
Reynolds V. United States: The Historical Construction of Constitutional Reality. by Donald L. Drakeman In the Supreme...the extent to which it has cast a strict separationist hue on the First Amendment in a manner that has colored church...sides to cite those framers who appear to support their views and to criticize their opponents for misreading or misrepresenting...indicted by a grand jury for bigamy on the grounds that in 1865 he had married Mary Ann Tuddenham and then, in August of...
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Constitutional History and Constitutional Theory: Reflections on Ackerman, Reconstruction, and the Transformation of the American Constitution
Journal article by Michael Les Benedict; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 108, 1999
Subjects: Ackerman, Bruce--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Constitutional history--Analysis, Constitutional law--Political aspects, We the People, vol. 2, Transformations (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...BROCK, AN AMERICAN CRISIS: CONGRESS AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1867, at 271-73 (1963); MCKITRICK, supra note 29, at 117-19. Alfred H. Kelly first posited the argument in a comment on an early Hyman paper that stressed the radicalism of...accurate, and that his interpretation of what they mean for constitutional theory be persuasive. While he points out with regularity and pleasure occasions when the actors views coincide with his, he never argues that Republicans...124 (Richard L. Bushman et al. eds., 1979). (98.) Abraham Lincoln, Address at Cooper Institute, New York City (Feb. 27...
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Economic Activity as a Proxy for Federalism: Intuition and Reason in United States V. Morrison
Journal article by Allan Ides; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 18, 2001
Subjects: Constitutional law--Cases, Federalism--Cases, United States v. Morrison--529 U.S. 598 (2000), Violence Against Women Act of 1994
...by Allan Ides The Violence Against Women Act...to create the civil remedy on which Ms. Brzonkala relied...Court ostensibly affirmed the constitutional significance of this factor...and validating discordant views, and as such it creates a...solely on the past, without the necessary check of reasoned...criminal conduct based solely on that conducts aggregate effect on interstate commerce. The Constitution requires a distinction between...
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"The Strong Arm of the Military Power of the United States": The Chicago Fire, the Constitution, and Reconstruction
Journal article by Andrew L. Slap; Civil War History, Vol. 47, 2001
Subjects: Great Chicago Fire of 1871--Social aspects, Military policy--History, Reconstruction--Social aspects, United States history--1865-1898, United States. Army--History, War and emergency powers--Evaluation
...1863-1877 (New York: Harper Row, 1988), 454-58; Herman Belz, Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998...Chicago Press, 1995), 77-81. The only work done specifically on the use of federal power after the Chicago fire is Bruce...Reconstruction, 501; Phillip S. Paludan, A Covenant with Death: The Constitution, Law, and Equality in the Civil War Era (Chicago: University...
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Commandeering, the Tenth Amendment, and the Federal Requisition Power: New York V. United States Revisited
Journal article by Erik M. Jensen, Jonathan L. Entin; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 15, 1998
Subjects: Federal jurisdiction--Laws, regulations, etc., Federal-state controversies--Laws, regulations, etc., New York v. United States--505 U.S. 144 (1992), Printz v. United States--117 S. Ct. 2365 (1997), Taxing power--Laws, regulations, etc.
Commandeering, the Tenth Amendment, and the federal requisition power: New York...Amendment,(2) Justice OConnors majority opinion relied heavily on original understanding. "The question whether the Constitution should permit Congress to employ state governments as regulatory...collecting the additional imposition. This will best answer the views of revenue, because it will save expense in the collection...
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The Formation of the United States
Magazine article by Gordon L. Anderson; World and I, Vol. 20, January 2005
Subjects: Confederation Congress, 1781-1789, Constitutional history, Franklin, Benjamin--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Jefferson, Thomas--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Statesmen--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Statesmen--Political activity, United States history, 1783-1789 (Confederation), United States history--Confederation, 1783-1789, Washington, George (American president)--Political activity
...of ticket sales, the game could not be played. The laws of the United States serve as the referee that allows all citizens to pursue their happiness on fair and equal grounds. It must penalize players that use...created the Bill of Rights (the first ten Amendments to the Constitution) which was described by Thomas Jefferson as "the rights the...
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The Irony of Islamists: Muslim Rights Depend on National Rules: Abroad, the Islamic Faithful Often Are Persecuted by Their Own Governments, While in the United States They Benefit from Constitutional Freedoms
Magazine article by Julia Duin; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, November 5, 2001
Subjects: Christianity and other religions--Islam, Islam--Laws, regulations, etc., Koran (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Muslims in the United States--Religion, Muslims--Religion, Religious literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
The Irony of Islamists: Muslim rights depend on national rules: abroad, the Islamic faithful often are persecuted...governments, while in the United States they benefit from constitutional freedoms by Julia Duin In traditional Islamic...foreigners alike to be frank with their political and religious views. But in Jordan, a relatively liberal country by Islamic standards...
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Hamilton's Ups and Downs: Scholars Revive Interest in a Misunderstood Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, Whose Pragmatic Ideas Could Help the United States through Its Current Confusion
Magazine article by Michael Rust; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, May 17, 1999
Subjects: Hamilton, Alexander--Foreign relations, Historical revisionism--Analysis, International relations--History, United States--Foreign relations
...Father, Alexander Hamilton, whose pragmatic ideas could help the United States through its current confusion by Michael Rust As bombs rained on Kosovo, confusion seemed to reign in Washington: Uncertainty...Jefferson is slipping right now," particularly in regard to his views on slavery. "But as that happens, maybe his great enemy gets...understand it, too." The young Hamilton pushed hard for the constitutional convention and was a signatory to the ensuing document. In...
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Tyranny and Posse Comitatus: Enacted as Part of a Political Bargain in 1878, the Posse Comitatus Act Brought Down the Curtain on a Shameful Era of Military Dictatorship in the Southern United States
Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 21, October 31, 2005
Subjects: Military history--Evaluation, Posse Comitatus Act
...would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my fight hand." Social Engineers With Bayonets Reconstruction was not simply an exercise in knitting together anew the sundered Union. It was an effort to eradicate the culture...
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Tunisia & the USA: Tunisia's President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's Visit to the United States at the Invitation of US President George W Bush Has Become a Crucial Watershed in the Political and Economic Relations between America and the Arab World
Magazine article by Anver Versi; The Middle East, March 2004
Subjects: International relations
...does not fit all the British parliamentary system with a constitutional monarchy, the American federal system with an executive president, the...the installation of democracies where they do not exist. On this point, he will find nobody to quarrel with in the region...against them. In addition, there was a babble of voices and views about what direction the countries would take, personal ambitions...
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'The United States of America Will Continue to Lead'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 1, 2006
...States is grateful to Justice Sandra Day OConnor. A hopeful society comes to the aid of fellow citizens in times of suffering and emergency - and stays at it until they are back on their feet. So far, the federal government has committed $85 billion to...
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Terminal Rights?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 10, 2008
Subjects: Cancer treatment, Cancer--Care and treatment, Constitutional law, United States. Supreme Court
...terminally ill patients, but also one that addresses vital constitutional questions concerning the Courts protection of "fundamental rights." The case, Abigail...Johns Hopkins University oncologist wanted to put Abigail on an experimental cancer drug whose early trial results proved...
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Judicial Activism in the Philippines
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 12, 2004
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court
Judicial Activism in the Philippines. (Address...Initiative. The address was given on June 25, 2004 at the Westin...Filipino perspective on the "Constitutional Foundation for the Exercise...may not restrict or limit the actions or impose its own standards of wisdom or convenience on them. Upon the other hand, when the Constitution provides conditions, limitations...
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Nigeria's Emerging Rule of Law
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 26, 2007
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court
...Emerging Rule of Law. Byline: Bruce Fein, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Nigerias Supreme Court is the vanguard...responsibility for suicide attacks in April in Algeria and on three occasions in Morocco since March. The group would relish...National Assembly blocked President Obasanjos scheming for a constitutional amendment permitting a third term, an uncharacteristic demonstration...arranged between American and Nigerian judges to exchange views on judicial independence and judicial review. Scholarships...
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'State of Our Union Is Confident and Strong'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 3, 2005
Subjects: United States. Congress
...Confident and Strong. Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES Excerpts...Iraq. Two weeks ago, I stood on the steps of this Capitol...children and society, I support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution...and I have done so. The Constitution also gives the Senate a responsibility: Every...attention and without consequence. On the offensive Our country...
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Supreme Court, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SUPREME COURT, UNITED STATES highest court of the United States, established by Article 3 of the Constitution of the United States. Scope and Jurisdiction Section...decisions of state courts of last resort and federal decisions on any important matter, especially when the inferior courts...development of the U.S. economy, the alteration of political views, and the evolution of the federal structure. In its earliest...during the Civil War when Taneys challenge of President Lincolns power to suspend habeas corpus was ignored by the President...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Aug. 9, the first president in the history of the republic to be driven from...peace). In domestic affairs, the United States was hurt by skyrocketing fuel prices...highest public approval rating in history. Mounting domestic problems, however...billion to save the industry. The United States went through a transitional period...expensive natural disaster in U.S. history. The following month, Hurricane...other parts of the state and other states, particularly Texas. Some 200,000...had hindered the ability of the United States to respond to natural disasters...
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Tennessee , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Tennessees James K. Polk, a Jackson protege, was the President of the United States during that war. The Civil War and Reconstruction Although slaves were numerous in W Tennessee, and to a lesser extent in Middle Tennessee, and free blacks were subjected...
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Alabama , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...representatives to the U.S. Congress and has nine electoral votes. Alabama politics was dominated by the Democratic party from Reconstruction until the 1980s, when Harold Guy Hunt became (1986) the first Republican to be elected governor in over a century...
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Georgia , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Dec.) of Savannah, left in its path a scene of great destruction. The Long Aftermath of the Civil War During Reconstruction , Georgia at first refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and was consequently placed under military rule. During...
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