03848nam 2200745Ia 450 991082352350332120200520144314.01-107-22960-X1-139-20991-41-280-48524-81-139-22284-897866135802211-139-21804-21-139-00507-31-139-22456-51-139-21495-01-139-22112-4(CKB)2550000000082930(EBL)833474(OCoLC)778377492(SSID)ssj0000612383(PQKBManifestationID)11931485(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612383(PQKBWorkID)10571174(PQKB)10563317(UkCbUP)CR9781139005074(MiAaPQ)EBC833474(Au-PeEL)EBL833474(CaPaEBR)ebr10533309(CaONFJC)MIL358022(EXLCZ)99255000000008293020110715d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNatural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition /Justin Buckley Dyer1st ed.Cambridge ;New York Cambridge University Press20121 online resource (x, 197 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-45435-2 1-107-01363-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue. Slavery and the laws and rights of nature -- Introduction. The apple of gold -- Somerset and the antislavery constitutional tradition -- Constitutional disharmony in The Antelope and La Amistad -- Constitutional construction in Prigg and Dred Scott -- Natural law, providence, and Lincoln's constitutional statesmanship -- Public reason and the wrong of slavery -- Conclusion. The heritage of the antislavery constitutional tradition.In Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition, Justin Buckley Dyer provides a succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War. Within the context of recent revisionist scholarship, Dyer argues that the theoretical foundations of American constitutionalism - which he identifies with principles of natural law - were antagonistic to slavery. Still, the continued existence of slavery in the nineteenth century created a tension between practice and principle. In a series of case studies, Dyer reconstructs the constitutional arguments of prominent antislavery thinkers such as John Quincy Adams, John McLean, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, who collectively sought to overcome the legacy of slavery by emphasizing the natural law foundations of American constitutionalism. What emerges is a convoluted understanding of American constitutional development that challenges traditional narratives of linear progress while highlighting the centrality of natural law to America's greatest constitutional crisis.SlaveryLaw and legislationUnited StatesConstitutional historyUnited StatesAntislavery movementsUnited StatesNatural lawInfluenceSlaveryLaw and legislationConstitutional historyAntislavery movementsNatural lawInfluence.342.7308/7POL040000bisacshDyer Justin Buckley1983-1593564MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823523503321Natural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition3913751UNINA