Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil

Name: Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
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ISBN: 9780521728577

ISBN-10: 0521728576

ISBN-13: 9780521728577

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mark A. Graber

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Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally understood as an effort to mediate controversies between persons who disputed fundamental values, and did not offer a vision of the good society. In order to form a 'more perfect union' with slaveholders, late-eighteenth-century citizens fashioned a constitution that plainly compelled some injustices and was silent or ambiguous on other questions of fundamental right. This constitutional relationship could survive only as long as a bisectional consensus was required…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




The Lessons of Dred Scott



The Dred Scott decision



Critiques of Dred Scott



Critiquing the critiques



Injustice and constitutional Law



The Constitutional Politics of Slavery



The slavery compromises revisited



The compromises and constitutional development



The Constitutional Order modified: 1820-1860



The constitution and the civil war



Compromising with Evil



Majoritarianism and constitutional evil



Contract, consent, and constitutional evil



Constitutional relationships and constitutional evil



Voting For John Bell



Lincoln v. Bell



Constitutional justice or constitutional peace