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Was Lincoln a dictator, albeit benign? Was he a revolutionary nationalist, casting aside constitutional forms and procedures and paving the way for a twentieth-century "imperial presidency"? Or was he a constitutional chief executive who, even in the nation's darkest hour of crisis, operated within the limits imposed by the Founding Fathers? Was Reconstruction a revolutionary repudiation of the Constitution, or a legitimate amendment thereof?
This book, by one of the nation's leading constitutional historians, analyzes the nature and tendency of American constitutionalism during the nation's greatest political crisis. In a series of related essays, Herman Belz combines detailed narrative with probing judicial analysis of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln, his exercise of executive power, and the application of the equality principle which would become a central issue during Reconstruction.
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Politics and government, Views on the Constitution, Civil rights, Equality before the law, United States, Constitutional history, History, African Americans, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, Civil rights, united states, Constitutional history, united states, United states, history, 1783-1865, The constitution, ReconstructionPeople
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Abraham Lincoln, constitutionalism, and equal rights in the Civil War era
1998, Fordham University Press
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082321768X 9780823217687
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-262) and index.
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