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Slavery & the Law (Hardcover, New): Paul Finkelman Slavery & the Law (Hardcover, New)
Paul Finkelman; Contributions by Derrick Bell, Jonathan A. Bush, Jacob I Corre, Michael Kent Curtis, …
R4,591 Discovery Miles 45 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself. Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence, and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment, and constitutional law. What emerges from this multi-faceted portrait is a complex legal system designed to ensure the property rights of slave-holders and to institutionalize racism. The ultimate result was to strengthen the institution of slavery in the midst of a growing trend toward democracy in the mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic community.

No State Shall Abridge - The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights (Paperback, Abridged Ed): Michael Kent Curtis No State Shall Abridge - The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights (Paperback, Abridged Ed)
Michael Kent Curtis
R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The book is carefully organized and well written, and it deals with a question that is still of great importance--what is the relationship of the Bill of Rights to the states."--"Journal of American History"

"Curtis effectively settles a serious legal debate: whether the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to incorporate the Bill of Rights guarantees and thereby inhibit state action. Taking on a formidable array of constitutional scholars, . . . he rebuts their argument with vigor and effectiveness, conclusively demonstrating the legitimacy of the incorporation thesis. . . . A bold, forcefully argued, important study."--"Library Journal"

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