@article{352266,
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      author = {Hamilton, Daniel W.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/352266},
      title = {The limits of sovereignty property confiscation in the  Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Chicago Press,},
      abstract = {Americans take for granted that government does not have  the right to permanently seize private property without  just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a  view constituted the weaker side of an ongoing argument  about government sovereignty and individual rights. What  brought about this drastic shift in legal and political  thought?. Daniel W. Hamilton locates that change in the  crucible of the Civil War. In the early days of the war,  Congress passed the First and Second Confiscation Acts,  authorizing the Union to seize private property in the  rebellious states of the Confederacy.},
      recid = {352266},
      pages = {1 online resource (231 p.)},
      address = {Chicago :},
      year = {2007},
}