LEADER 03855nam 22007212 450 001 9910457427303321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-22960-X 010 $a1-139-20991-4 010 $a1-280-48524-8 010 $a1-139-22284-8 010 $a9786613580221 010 $a1-139-21804-2 010 $a1-139-00507-3 010 $a1-139-22456-5 010 $a1-139-21495-0 010 $a1-139-22112-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000082930 035 $a(EBL)833474 035 $a(OCoLC)778377492 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000612383 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11931485 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612383 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10571174 035 $a(PQKB)10563317 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139005074 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC833474 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL833474 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533309 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358022 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000082930 100 $a20110131d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNatural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition /$fJustin Buckley Dyer$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 197 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-45435-2 311 $a1-107-01363-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue. 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. 330 $aIn 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. 517 3 $aNatural Law & the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition 606 $aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aConstitutional history$zUnited States 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States 606 $aNatural law$xInfluence 615 0$aSlavery$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aConstitutional history 615 0$aAntislavery movements 615 0$aNatural law$xInfluence. 676 $a342.7308/7 700 $aDyer$b Justin Buckley$f1983-$01033560 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457427303321 996 $aNatural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition$92452161 997 $aUNINA