The limits of sovereignty [electronic resource] : property confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War / Daniel W. Hamilton.
2007
KF7221 .H36 2007eb
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The limits of sovereignty [electronic resource] : property confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War / Daniel W. Hamilton.
Author
Hamilton, Daniel W.
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9780226314860 (electronic bk.)
0226314820
9780226314822
0226314820
9780226314822
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Language
English
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1 online resource (231 p.)
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KF7221 .H36 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.7/1
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
Legislative property confiscation before the Civil War
Radical property confiscation in the Thirty-seventh Congress
The conservative assault on confiscation
The moderate coup
The Confederate Sequestration Act
The ordeal of sequestration
Civil War confiscation in the reconstruction supreme court
The limits of sovereignty.
Radical property confiscation in the Thirty-seventh Congress
The conservative assault on confiscation
The moderate coup
The Confederate Sequestration Act
The ordeal of sequestration
Civil War confiscation in the reconstruction supreme court
The limits of sovereignty.