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- Authors:
- Neely, Mark E.
- Item ID:
- 71201501200016
- Publisher:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
- ISBN:
- 9780807835180 (cloth : alk. paper); 0807835188 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Series:
- Littlefield history of the Civil War era; Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
- Call Number:
- KFZ9001.5 .N44 2011
- Physical Description:
- 408 p. ; 25 cm.
- Topic:
- Constitutional history -- Confederate States of America.
- Constitutional history -- United States.
- Habeas corpus -- United States -- History.
- Civil rights -- Confederate States of America -- History.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on the Constitution.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Law and legislation.
- Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.; "The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate Constitution, and the ways the documents shaped the struggle for national survival. Previous scholars have examined wartime challenges to civil liberties and questions of presidential power, but Neely argues that the constitutional conflict extended to the largest questions of national existence. Drawing on judicial opinions, presidential state papers, and political pamphlets spiced with the everyday immediacy of the partisan press, Neely reveals how judges, lawyers, editors, politicians, and government officials, both North and South, used their constitutions to fight the war and save, or create, their nation. Lincoln and the triumph of the nation illuminates how the U.S. Constitution not only survived its greatest test but emerged stronger after the war. That this happened at a time when the nation's very existence was threatened, Neely argues, speaks ultimately to the wisdom of the Union leadership, notably President Lincoln and his vision of the American nation"--Provided by publisher.; Part 1 : the President and the nation. Secession and anarchy : Lincoln's view of the constitution and the nation -- Habeas corpus, the nation, and the presidency -- The Emancipation Proclamation : the triumph of nationalism over racism and the constitution -- Part 2 : the courts and the nation. Soldiers in the courtroom -- The nation in the courts : the least dangerous branch fights the civil war -- Part 3 : the Confederacy and its constitution. Secession : deratifying the constitution -- The police state of Richmond -- State rights in the confederacy.
- OCLC Number:
- ocn711043331
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Available for Viewing:
- By appointment only
- Category:
- Books & Pamphlets