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UNINA9910457567103321 |
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Titolo |
The South's role in the creation of the Bill of Rights [[electronic resource] ] : essays / / by Jack P. Greene ... [et al.] ; edited by Robert J. Haws |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, [2009?], c1991 |
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1-283-27512-0 |
9786613275127 |
1-61703-076-7 |
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[Print-on-demand ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GreeneJack P |
HawsRobert J |
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Slavery - Law and legislation - Southern States - History |
African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - Southern States - History |
Civil rights - Southern States - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Earlier versions of the essays which comprise this volume were presented at the thirteenth Porter L. Fortune, Jr., Symposium on Southern History at the University of Mississippi in October 1987". |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; The Constitution of 1787 and the Question of Southern Distinctiveness; Natural Rights, Bills of Rights, and the People's Rights in Virginia Constitutional Discourse, 1787-1791; The ""Amending Fathers"" and the Constitution: Changing Perceptions of Home Rule and Who Should Rule at Home; Oral and Written Cultures: North Carolina and the Constitution, 1787-1791; ""The Good Old Cause"": The Ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights in South Carolina; Constitutional Silences: Georgia, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights-A Historical Test of Originalism |
NotesContributors; Index |
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The adoption of the Bill of Rights was the last step in defining the essential elements of American constitutionalism. The process began with the writing of the Constitution, continued through its ratification |
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by the states, and culminated with the adoption of the Bill of Rights. In 1991 the bicentennial of the adoption of the Bill of Rights provided an occasion for examining the origins of this most important statement of individual rights in American history. Published on this anniversary, The South's Role in the Creation of the Bill of Rights sheds light on the paradoxical part the South pl |
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UNINA9910782048303321 |
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Frei Norbert |
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Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi past : the politics of amnesty and integration / / Norbert Frei ; translated by Joel Golb |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2002 |
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1-281-81749-X |
9786613791702 |
0-231-50790-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 479 pages) |
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GolbJoel |
SternFritz <1926-2016.> |
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Denazification |
Germany (West) Politics and government |
Germany Politics and government 1945-1990 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-459) and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. A Legislation for the Past -- PART II. A Past-Political Obsession: The Problem of the War Criminals -- PART III. Fixing Past-Political Limits: Judicial Norms and Allied Intervention -- CONCLUSION -- POSTSCRIPT FOR THE AMERICAN EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SOURCES AND LITERATURE -- INDEX |
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Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly, with the Nazi past. While on the international stage German officials spoke with contrition of their nation's burden of guilt, |
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at home questions of responsibility and retribution were not so clear. In this masterful examination of Germany under Adenauer, Norbert Frei shows that, beginning in 1949, the West German government dramatically reversed the denazification policies of the immediate postwar period and initiated a new "Vergangenheitspolitik," or "policy for the past," which has had enormous consequences reaching into the present. Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past chronicles how amnesty laws for Nazi officials were passed unanimously and civil servants who had been dismissed in 1945 were reinstated liberally-and how a massive popular outcry led to the release of war criminals who had been condemned by the Allies. These measures and movements represented more than just the rehabilitation of particular individuals. Frei argues that the amnesty process delegitimized the previous political expurgation administered by the Allies and, on a deeper level, served to satisfy the collective psychic needs of a society longing for a clean break with the unparalleled political and moral catastrophe it had undergone in the 1940's. Thus the era of Adenauer devolved into a scandal-ridden period of reintegration at any cost. Frei's work brilliantly and chillingly explores how the collective will of the German people, expressed through mass allegiance to new consensus-oriented democratic parties, cast off responsibility for the horrors of the war and Holocaust, effectively silencing engagement with the enormities of the Nazi past. |
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