The limits of sovereignty [electronic resource] : property confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War / Daniel W. Hamilton.
Hamilton, Daniel W.
2007
KF7221 .H36 2007eb
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Title 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.
ISBN 9780226314860 (electronic bk.)
0226314820
9780226314822
Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (231 p.)
Call Number 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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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-215) and index.
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