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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part I -- Chapter 1 A Divided Lincoln? -- Chapter 2 Stephen A.Douglas The Missing Constitutional Basis -- Part II -- Chapter 3 Alexander H.Stephens Slavery,Secession,and the Higher Law -- Chapter 4 John C.Calhoun The Politics of Interest -- Chapter 5 George Fitzhugh The Tur to History -- Chapter 6 The Attack on Locke -- Part III Abolitionism Natural Justice and Its Limits -- Chapter 7 Henry David Thoreau The Question of Political Engagement -- Chapter 8 William Lloyd Garrison From Disunionist to Lincoln Emancipationist -- Chapter 9 Frederick Douglass Antislavery Constitutionalism and the Problem of Consent -- Part IV Conclusion The Case for Politics -- Chapter 10 Freedom,Political and Economic -- Chapter 11 Between Legalism and the Higher Law -- Chapter 12 Lincoln 's Defense of Politics -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Abraham Lincoln's 1838 Lyceum speech is of interest for its explicit argument -- that extra-legal violence is not a legitimate inference from popular sovereignty -- but especially for the manner in which Lincoln led his listeners to this conclusion, which many of them would have resisted. His defence of American political institutions relies on informal, non-institutional, rhetorical means. By employing such means, Lincoln addressed a gap in the American framers' view of a representative's duty: he sought to change public opinion as well as represent it. Lincoln's response to violence invites comparison with that of the abolitionists, who were frequently its targets. Both saw rhetoric as a necessary complement to formal institutions, but Lincoln goes further than the abolitionists in considering the dangers in an appeal from popular opinion to rights. Adapted from the source document.

WOS: 000251613000005 ; This paper presents recent events including the Danish cartoon crisis occasion - a re-examination of John Stuart Mill's argument for freedom of expression. Despite the appeal of liberalism, Mill's philosophy had from the start been subject to intense criticism. The rise of political Islam opens a new phase in the debate; the difficulties pointed out by Mill's critics are indicative of the obstacles that liberalism still faces.