The limits of sovereignty [electronic resource] : property confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War / Daniel W. Hamilton.

The limits of sovereignty [electronic resource] : property confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War / Daniel W. Hamilton.

9780226314860 (electronic bk.)
0226314820
9780226314822

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

English

1 online resource (231 pages)

KF7221 .H36 2007eb

973.7/1

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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-215) and index.

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