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Graber, Mark A.

 
9780521861656: Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution)
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ISBN 10: 0521861659 ISBN 13: 9780521861656
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Sinopsis

Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil , first published in 2006, concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally understood as an effort to mediate controversies between persons who disputed fundamental values, and did not offer a vision of the good society. In order to form a 'more perfect union' with slaveholders, late-eighteenth-century citizens fashioned a constitution that plainly compelled some injustices and was silent or ambiguous on other questions of fundamental right. This constitutional relationship could survive only as long as a bisectional consensus was required to resolve all constitutional questions not settled in 1787. Dred Scott challenges persons committed to human freedom to determine whether antislavery northerners should have provided more accommodations for slavery than were constitutionally strictly necessary or risked the enormous destruction of life and property that preceded Lincoln's new birth of freedom.

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Acerca del autor

Mark A. Graber is a Professor of Government at the University of Maryland College Park and a Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law. He previously taught law and political science at the University of Texas. He is the author of Transforming Free Speech (1991), Rethinking Abortion (1996), and numerous articles on American constitutional development, law and politics. His many awards include the Edward Corwin Prize (best dissertation), the Hughes Goessart Prize (best article in the Journal of the History of the Supreme Court), and the Congressional Quarterly Prize (best published article on public law). He is a member of the American Political Science Association and the American Association of Law Schools. During the 2005–6 academic year, he was head of the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521861659
ISBN 13 
9780521861656
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
280
Contacto del fabricante
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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