LEADER 03664nam 22006494a 450 001 9910453875903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-95706-2 010 $a9786611957063 010 $a0-226-31486-3 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226314860 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578991 035 $a(EBL)408550 035 $a(OCoLC)476229575 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000192538 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11167607 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192538 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10187048 035 $a(PQKB)11079340 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122002 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408550 035 $a(DE-B1597)524639 035 $a(OCoLC)1058071174 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226314860 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408550 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265954 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195706 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578991 100 $a20060623d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe limits of sovereignty$b[electronic resource] $eproperty confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War /$fDaniel W. Hamilton 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-31482-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-215) and index. 327 $aLegislative 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. 330 $aAmericans 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. 606 $aEnemy property$zUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xLaw and legislation 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xConfiscations and contributions 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xClaims 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnemy property$xHistory 676 $a973.7/1 700 $aHamilton$b Daniel W$0120176 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453875903321 996 $aThe limits of sovereignty$92125367 997 $aUNINA