The Constitution, law, and American life : critical aspects of the nineteenth-century experience / edited by Donald G. Nieman.

Other author Nieman, Donald G., Ph.D.
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press, ©1992.
Descriptionxvii, 197 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Hercules unbound : Loncoln, slavery, and the intentions of the framers / Phillip Shaw Paludan -- "The Law, and Not Conscience, Constitutes the Rule of Action" : the South Bend fugitive slave case and the value of "Justice Delayed" / Paul Finkelman -- Reconstructing female citizenship : Minor v. Happersett / Norma Basch -- The language of liberation : African Americans and equalitarian constitutionalism, 1830-1950 / Donald G. Nieman -- Victorian moralism and civil liberty in the nineteenth-century United States / Michael Les Benedict -- Drug laws and druguse in nineteenth-century America / David T. Courtwright -- Commitment law, family stress, and legal culture : the case of Victorian Alabama/ John S. Hughes -- Creative necessity : municipal reform in Gilded Age Chicago / Harold L. Platt.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 91021385
ISBN082031403X (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks KF4541 .C587 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold