Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Concise Lincoln Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (975 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0809334240 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Samito's book brings a major element of the times to the forefront" according to Michael J. Kahn. Thanks in part to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln three years ago, popular attention is turning towards the historical milestone and perpetual socio-legal reverberations of the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Now, author Dr. Christian Samito, Esq., has focused and entire narrative in the Lincoln Concise series on the subject, aptly titled Li. Highly Recommended This well-written narrative tells the story of how and why Lincoln’s views about constitutional amendment changed during the Civil War and how he helped create the political climate for the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Samito tells a fascinating story of constitutional history but he writes in such a way that non-lawyers will understan
Well into his presidency, he argued that emancipation should take place only on the state level because the federal government had no jurisdiction to control slavery in the states. Samito examines how Lincoln’s opposition to amending the United States Constitution shaped his political views before he became president, and how constitutional arguments overcame Lincoln’s objections, turning him into a supporter of the Thirteenth Amendment by 1864.For most of his political career, Samito shows, Lincoln opposed changing the Constitution, even to overturn Supreme Court rulings with which he disagreed. Between January 1863 and mid-1864, however, Lincoln came to support a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery because it worked within the constitutional structure and preserved key components of American constitutionalism in the face of Radical Republican schemes. He also considers the Thirteenth Amendment in the context of the Hampton Roads conference, Lincoln’s own thoughts on the meaning of the amendment, and the impact of Lincoln’s assassination on the reading o
Those who were intrigued by Spielberg’s film Lincoln will want to read what really happened.”—Randy E. Barnett, author of Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty "Samito's careful attention to the 13th Amendment is a fitting celebration of the first in the great trilogy of constitutional amendments that have and continue to redefine the nature of our democracy.Samito investigates the role of the 13th Amendment in reshaping the landscape of constitutional lawSamito goes beyond the obvious end of slavery to consider that this amendment, for the first time, granted the federal government authority to us