Simon J. Gilhooley (New York Bard College)

The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution

Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding

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Produktbeschreibung

The emergence of slavery in the District of Columbia profoundly transformed constitutional interpretation. Gilhooley's account of this interaction, and how it forms the basis of modern constitutional understandings grounded in the American Founding, is for scholars of the US Constitution, American history and politics, and legal studies.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 283
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781108791458
• ISBN-10: 110879145X
• Artikelnr.: 63459926

Autorenporträt

Simon J. Gilhooley is Assistant Professor, Political Studies and American Studies, Bard College, New York. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Constitutional Imaginaries of the Missouri Crisis
2. The Declaration of Independence and Black Citizenship in the 1820s
3. Abolitionism and the Constitution in the 1830s
4. The Slaveholding South and the Constitutionalization of Slavery
5. Theories of the Federal Compact in the 1830s
6. Slavery, The District of Columbia, and the Constitution
7. The Congressional Crisis of 1836
8: The Compact and the Election of 1836
9. The Afterlife of the Compact of 1836
Conclusion.