The antebellum origins of the modern Constitution: slavery and the spirit of the American founding
In: Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
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In: Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 137, Heft 3, S. 634-636
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 719-721
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 1159-1160
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: The review of politics, Band 79, Heft 2, S. 341-344
ISSN: 1748-6858
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 153-156
ISSN: 2161-1599
In: Political studies review, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 382
ISSN: 1478-9299
In: Western Political Science Association 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
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Working paper
In: Western Political Science Association 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
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Working paper
In: Cambridge studies on the American Constitution
This book argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American Republic generated a mode of constitutional interpretation that remains powerful today: the belief that the historical spirit of founding holds authority over the current moment. Simon J. Gilhooley traces how debates around the existence of slavery in the District of Columbia gave rise to the articulation of this constitutional interpretation, which constrained the radical potential of the constitutional text. To reconstruct the origins of this interpretation, Gilhooley draws on rich sources that include historical newspapers, pamphlets, and congressional debates. Examining free black activism in the North, Abolitionism in the 1830s, and the evolution of pro-slavery thought, this book shows how in navigating the existence of slavery in the District and the fundamental constitutional issue of the enslaved's personhood, Antebellum opponents of abolition came to promote an enduring but constraining constitutional imaginary.
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 577-600
ISSN: 2161-1599
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 62-88
ISSN: 2161-1599