03664nam 22006494a 450 991045387590332120200520144314.01-281-95706-297866119570630-226-31486-310.7208/9780226314860(CKB)1000000000578991(EBL)408550(OCoLC)476229575(SSID)ssj0000192538(PQKBManifestationID)11167607(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192538(PQKBWorkID)10187048(PQKB)11079340(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122002(MiAaPQ)EBC408550(DE-B1597)524639(OCoLC)1058071174(DE-B1597)9780226314860(Au-PeEL)EBL408550(CaPaEBR)ebr10265954(CaONFJC)MIL195706(EXLCZ)99100000000057899120060623d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe limits of sovereignty[electronic resource] property confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War /Daniel W. HamiltonChicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (240 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-31482-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-215) and index.Legislative property confiscation before the Civil War -- Radical property confiscation in the Thirty-seventh Congress -- The conservative assault on confiscation -- The moderate coup -- The Confederate Sequestration Act -- The ordeal of sequestration -- Civil War confiscation in the reconstruction supreme court -- The limits of sovereignty.Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a view constituted the weaker side of an ongoing argument about government sovereignty and individual rights. What brought about this drastic shift in legal and political thought? Daniel W. Hamilton locates that change in the crucible of the Civil War. In the early days of the war, Congress passed the First and Second Confiscation Acts, authorizing the Union to seize private property in the rebellious states of the Confederacy, and the Confederate Congress responded with the broader Sequestration Act. The competing acts fueled a fierce, sustained debate among legislators and lawyers about the principles underlying alternative ideas of private property and state power, a debate which by 1870 was increasingly dominated by today's view of more limited government power. Through its exploration of this little-studied consequence of the debates over confiscation during the Civil War, The Limits of Sovereignty will be essential to an understanding of the place of private property in American law and legal history.Enemy propertyUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Law and legislationUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Confiscations and contributionsUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865ClaimsElectronic books.Enemy propertyHistory973.7/1Hamilton Daniel W120176MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453875903321The limits of sovereignty2125367UNINA