Lincoln and the triumph of the nation : constitutional conflict in the American Civil War

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Label

Lincoln and the triumph of the nation : constitutional conflict in the American Civil War

Title remainder

constitutional conflict in the American Civil War

Statement of responsibility

Mark E. Neely Jr

Creator

• Neely, Mark E., Jr

Subject

• Constitutional history -- Confederate States of America
• Constitutional history -- United States
• Habeas corpus -- United States -- History
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on the Constitution
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Law and legislation
• Civil rights -- Confederate States of America -- History

Language

eng

Summary

• "The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate Constitution, and the ways the documents shaped the struggle for national survival. Previous scholars have examined wartime challenges to civil liberties and questions of presidential power, but Neely argues that the constitutional conflict extended to the largest questions of national existence. Drawing on judicial opinions, presidential state papers, and political pamphlets spiced with the everyday immediacy of the partisan press, Neely reveals how judges, lawyers, editors, politicians, and government officials, both North and South, used their constitutions to fight the war and save, or create, their nation. Lincoln and the triumph of the nation illuminates how the U.S. Constitution not only survived its greatest test but emerged stronger after the war. That this happened at a time when the nation's very existence was threatened, Neely argues, speaks ultimately to the wisdom of the Union leadership, notably President Lincoln and his vision of the American nation"--Provided by publisher
• "The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate Constitution, and the ways the documents shaped the struggle for national survival"--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Littlefield history of the Civil War era

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

342.7302/9

Index

index present

LC call number

KFZ9001.5

LC item number

.N44 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Littlefield history of the Civil War era