Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney write by James F. Simon. This book was released on 2007-11-20. Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers are vividly brought to life in this compelling story of the momentous tug-of-war between these two men during the worst crisis in American history.
The Body of John Merryman
The Body of John Merryman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Body of John Merryman write by Brian McGinty. This book was released on 2011-10-05. The Body of John Merryman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Chief Justice Taney declared Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional and demanded the release of John Merryman, Lincoln defied the order, offering a forceful counter-argument for the constitutionality of his actions. The result was one of the most significant cases in American legal history—a case that resonates in our own time.
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery write by Eric Foner. This book was released on 2011-09-26. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.
The Merryman Habeas Corpus Case, Baltimore
The Merryman Habeas Corpus Case, Baltimore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Merryman Habeas Corpus Case, Baltimore write by John Merryman. This book was released on 1861. The Merryman Habeas Corpus Case, Baltimore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Broken Constitution
The Broken Constitution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Broken Constitution write by Noah Feldman. This book was released on 2021-11-02. The Broken Constitution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution—a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding. It was also assumed that basic civil liberties could be suspended in a rebellion by Congress but not by the president, and that the federal government had no authority over slavery in states where it existed. As president, Lincoln broke decisively with all these precedents, and effectively rewrote the Constitution’s place in the American system. Before the Civil War, the Constitution was best understood as a compromise pact—a rough and ready deal between states that allowed the Union to form and function. After Lincoln, the Constitution came to be seen as a sacred text—a transcendent statement of the nation’s highest ideals. The Broken Constitution is the first book to tell the story of how Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it. To do so, it offers a riveting narrative of his constitutional choices and how he made them—and places Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to Lincoln’s Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues. Includes 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations
