Lincoln and the triumph of the nation [electronic resource] : constitutional conflict in the American Civil War / Mark E. Neely.
Neely, Mark E., Jr.
2011
KFZ9001.5 .N44 2011eb
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Title Lincoln and the triumph of the nation [electronic resource] : constitutional conflict in the American Civil War / Mark E. Neely.
Author Neely, Mark E., Jr.
ISBN 9780807869024 (electronic bk.)
9780807835180
0807835188
Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (408 p.)
Call Number KFZ9001.5 .N44 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.7302/9
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-398) and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
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