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Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition (Paperback)
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Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition (Paperback)
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In Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition, Justin
Buckley Dyer provides a succinct account of the development of
American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the
Civil War. Within the context of recent revisionist scholarship,
Dyer argues that the theoretical foundations of American
constitutionalism - which he identifies with principles of natural
law - were antagonistic to slavery. Still, the continued existence
of slavery in the nineteenth century created a tension between
practice and principle. In a series of case studies, Dyer
reconstructs the constitutional arguments of prominent antislavery
thinkers such as John Quincy Adams, John McLean, Abraham Lincoln
and Frederick Douglass, who collectively sought to overcome the
legacy of slavery by emphasizing the natural law foundations of
American constitutionalism. What emerges is a convoluted
understanding of American constitutional development that
challenges traditional narratives of linear progress while
highlighting the centrality of natural law to America's greatest
constitutional crisis.
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