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Main Author:	Hyman, Harold Melvin, 1924-
Contributors:	Wiecek, William M., 1938-
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harper & Row, ©1982.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	New American nation series
Subjects and Genres:	Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld Geschichte 1835-1870. Geschichte 1835-1875. 1800-1899 Geschichte 1835. Constitutional history > United States. Equality before the law > United States > History > 19th century. Law > United States > History > 19th century. Law. Constitutional history. Equality before the law. Verfassung Verfassungsrecht Staatsrecht. Rechtsgelijkheid. Rechtsbescherming tegen de overheid. Rechtsontwikkeling. United States. USA. Constitutional law United States History.
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Table of Contents:

The democratic Constitution: sovereignty, Union, slavery
The public law
The Taney Court
The nemesis of the Constitution: slavery in the courts
Free Soil: the Constitution and the "Empire for liberty," 1845-1852
The crisis of the Union, 1853-1859
Secession: the Union destroyed
Reconstruction: the Union preserved
The dominion of well-administered law
A reconstruction of law and judicial review, 1863-1867
The Fourteenth Amendment in the light of the Thirteenth: not cramped by the old technicalities
Anxious passages: fitting end to all controversies?
The 1870s and 1880s: eras, not decades, removed from the 1860s
Appendix: The Constitution of the United States.