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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

xvii, 197 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Civil rights--United States--History--19th century.
Slavery--History--United States--History--19th century.
Sociological jurisprudence--History--19th century.
United States--Constitutional history.
United States--History--1865-1898.
History--History
United States

Other Authors:

Nieman, Donald G.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Hercules unbound : Lincoln, 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 drug use 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.

ISBN:

9780820314037 (alk. paper) :
082031403X (alk. paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)24009971
(OCoLC)26721504

LCCN:

91021385

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)