The Resource Uncivil warriors : the lawyers' civil war, Peter Hoffer
Uncivil warriors : the lawyers' civil war, Peter Hoffer
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- Summary
- "In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on which side has an argument that one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed for its dissolution. After the war began, rival legal concepts of insurrection (a civil war within a nation) and belligerency (war between sovereign enemies) vied for adherents in federal and Confederate councils. In a "nation of laws," such martial legalism was not surprising. Moreover, many of the political leaders of both the North and the South were lawyers themselves, including Abraham Lincoln. These lawyers now found themselves at the center of this violent maelstrom. For these men, as for their countrymen in the years following the conflict, the sacrifices of the war gave legitimacy to new kinds of laws defining citizenship and civil rights. Uncivil Warriors focuses on these lawyers' civil war: the legal professionals who plotted the course of the war from seats of power, the scenes of battle, and the home front. Both sides in the Civil War had their complement of lawyers, and eminent legal historian Peter Hoffer, provides coverage of both sides' leading lawyers. In positions of leadership, they struggled to make sense of the conflict and, in the course of that struggle, they began to glimpse into a new world of law. It was a law that empowered as well as limited government, a law that conferred personal dignity and rights on those who, at the war's beginning, could claim neither in law. Comprehensive in coverage, Uncivil Warriors focus on the legal side of America's worst conflict will reshape our understanding of the Civil War itself."--
- Language
- eng
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- Contents
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- Machine generated contents note:
- Introduction: A Civil War Of, By, and For Lawyers?
- Prologue: The Inseparability of Politics and Law: The First Lincoln-Douglas Debate
- Chapter One: The Contested Legality of Secession
- Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Cabinets and Two Congresses
- Chapter Three: In Re Merryman and its Progeny
- Chapter Four: Was Secession a Crime?
- Chapter Five: An Emancipation Proclamation
- Chapter Six: "A New Birth of Freedom"
- Epilogue: The Lawyers' Reconstruction
- Conclusion: The Lawyers' Civil War in Retrospect
- Isbn
- 9780190851767
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- Uncivil warriors : the lawyers' civil war
- Title
- Uncivil warriors
- Title remainder
- the lawyers' civil war
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Hoffer
- Subject
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- History
- Legislation
- Postwar reconstruction -- Law and legislation
- Postwar reconstruction -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
- Secession
- Secession -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- 1800-1899
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States
- United States
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Law and legislation
- War and emergency powers
- War and emergency powers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Emancipation
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on which side has an argument that one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed for its dissolution. After the war began, rival legal concepts of insurrection (a civil war within a nation) and belligerency (war between sovereign enemies) vied for adherents in federal and Confederate councils. In a "nation of laws," such martial legalism was not surprising. Moreover, many of the political leaders of both the North and the South were lawyers themselves, including Abraham Lincoln. These lawyers now found themselves at the center of this violent maelstrom. For these men, as for their countrymen in the years following the conflict, the sacrifices of the war gave legitimacy to new kinds of laws defining citizenship and civil rights. Uncivil Warriors focuses on these lawyers' civil war: the legal professionals who plotted the course of the war from seats of power, the scenes of battle, and the home front. Both sides in the Civil War had their complement of lawyers, and eminent legal historian Peter Hoffer, provides coverage of both sides' leading lawyers. In positions of leadership, they struggled to make sense of the conflict and, in the course of that struggle, they began to glimpse into a new world of law. It was a law that empowered as well as limited government, a law that conferred personal dignity and rights on those who, at the war's beginning, could claim neither in law. Comprehensive in coverage, Uncivil Warriors focus on the legal side of America's worst conflict will reshape our understanding of the Civil War itself."--
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- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hoffer, Peter Charles
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
- United States
- War and emergency powers
- Secession
- Slaves
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Postwar reconstruction
- Legislation
- Postwar reconstruction
- Secession
- Slaves
- War and emergency powers
- Southern States
- United States
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- Uncivil warriors : the lawyers' civil war, Peter Hoffer
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- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: A Civil War Of, By, and For Lawyers? -- Prologue: The Inseparability of Politics and Law: The First Lincoln-Douglas Debate -- Chapter One: The Contested Legality of Secession -- Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Cabinets and Two Congresses -- Chapter Three: In Re Merryman and its Progeny -- Chapter Four: Was Secession a Crime? -- Chapter Five: An Emancipation Proclamation -- Chapter Six: "A New Birth of Freedom" -- Epilogue: The Lawyers' Reconstruction -- Conclusion: The Lawyers' Civil War in Retrospect
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- 9780190851767
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- 2017057901
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- (OCoLC)1007063455
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- Uncivil warriors : the lawyers' civil war, Peter Hoffer
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- nc
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- Content category
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: A Civil War Of, By, and For Lawyers? -- Prologue: The Inseparability of Politics and Law: The First Lincoln-Douglas Debate -- Chapter One: The Contested Legality of Secession -- Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Cabinets and Two Congresses -- Chapter Three: In Re Merryman and its Progeny -- Chapter Four: Was Secession a Crime? -- Chapter Five: An Emancipation Proclamation -- Chapter Six: "A New Birth of Freedom" -- Epilogue: The Lawyers' Reconstruction -- Conclusion: The Lawyers' Civil War in Retrospect
- Extent
- pages cm
- Isbn
- 9780190851767
- Lccn
- 2017057901
- Media category
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- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Note
- GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1007063455
Subject
- History
- Legislation
- Postwar reconstruction -- Law and legislation
- Postwar reconstruction -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
- Secession
- Secession -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- 1800-1899
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States
- United States
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Law and legislation
- War and emergency powers
- War and emergency powers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Emancipation
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
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