| Series |
Constitutional thinking
Constitutional thinking. ^A1108344
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| Contents |
The perpetuation address : the tragedy of America -- The temperance address : playing with fire -- Mr. Lincoln goes to Washington -- A giant with feet of clay -- The faith of our fathers : Lincoln's case for the Declaration -- Legality and legitimacy in the Dred Scott case -- The concept of Dred : facing the abyss of Dred Scott v. Sandford -- Man the miner, man the farmer -- Dividing the House -- In the sahadow of the House divided : Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 -- In the shadow of the Harper's essay : Lincoln Douglas debates of 1859-1860 -- Secession and democratic sovereignty -- And the war came -- Lincoln's constitutionalism -- De(a)dication -- On the Second inaugural address. |
| Abstract |
"The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln's political thought, Michael Zuckert's A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent center to Lincoln's political thought, a core idea that unifies his thought and thus illuminates his deeds as a political actor. That core thought is captured in the term "democratic sovereignty." America, the new nation according to his speech at Gettysburg, was new precisely because it was born in dedication to the first premise of the theory of democratic sovereignty, that all men are created equal. Lincoln's thought consisted in an ever-deepening meditation on the grounds and implications of that proposition, both in its constructive and in its destructive potential. The goodness of the American regime derived from that ground and the chief dangers to the regime derived from the very same ground. Covering all significant speeches and writings of Lincoln both in his pre-presidential and in his presidential days, A Nation So Conceived is devoted to exploring the paradoxical duality of "created equal." In a nearly comprehensive study of Lincoln's thought, Zuckert reveals how Lincoln understood both its truth and its pathological consequences"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Zuckert, Michael P., 1942- Nation so conceived Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2023 9780700633937 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022012655 |
| ISBN | 9780700633920 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0700633928 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
