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| Dimensions: 9.25'' x 6'' |
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| 181 pages |
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AEI Press
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| Publication Date: August 1988 |
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| Paperback |
| ISBN: 0844736503 |
| Price: $ 9.95 |
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This book discusses the institution of slavery and how it relates to the Constitution.
Contributors include W. B. Allen, Harvey Mudd College; Don E. Fehrenbacher, Stanford University; Kenneth M. Holland, University of Vermont; Glenn Loury, Harvard University; Robert A. Sedler, Wayne State University; Herbert J. Storing, University of Virginia; and William E. Wiecek, Syracuse University. This is the seventh volume in a series published by AEI's bicentennial project, A Decade of Study of the Constitution.
Robert A. Goldwin is a resident scholar of constitutional studies at AEI. Art Kaufman is a research assistant in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.
Table of Contents
The Editors and Authors
Preface
- Slavery, the Framers, and the Living Constitution
- "The Blessings of Liberty": Slavery in the American Constitutional Order
- Slavery and the Moral Foundations of the American Republic
- A New Birth of Freedom: Fulfillment or Derailment?
- Equality and the Constitution
- The Constitution, Racial Preference, and the Equal Participation Objective
- "Matters of Color"--Blacks and the Constitutional Order
Appendix
