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! Read * Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition by Professor Justin Buckley Dyer ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition Cooper said Excellent Analysis of Constitutional Throught and History, Essential Reading in American Legal and Political Thought. Professor Justin Buckley Dyer's "Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition" recovers the applied logic of antislavery constitutionalism. The book taps directly into the philosophical premises underlying the American Revolution and the Constitution -- reflected so eloquently in the Declaration of Independence. The result is an insightful exploration of h
| Title | : | Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (901 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107454352 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-24 |
| Language | : | English |
In particular, it sheds clear light on the natural-law thinking of celebrated judges and statesmen, like Mansfield, Adams, and Lincoln."- Dominic DeBrincat, Eastern Connecticut State University, H-Net Reviews . He does not divine the Constitution's meaning from the intent of the Founders or the understanding of the ratifiers, however. "Justin Dyer has provided a powerful reminder that there was nothing inevitable about the end of slavery. Rather, he argues that natural law informed constitutional thinking and that abolitionists who deployed natural law concepts in their subsequent reading of the Constitution were substantially right." - H. The result is an account of constitutional development that is at once an improvement upon Whiggish visions of constitutional progress and a challenge to current scholarship that shrugs, indifferently, at constitutional aspirations."-George
In Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition, Justin Buckley Dyer provides a succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War. What emerges is an understanding of American constitutional development that challenges traditional narratives of linear progress while highlighting the centrality of natural law to America's greatest constitutional crisis.. In a series of case studies, Dyer reconstructs the constitutional arguments of prominent antislavery thinkers such as John Quincy Adams, John McLean, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass, who collectively sought to overcome the legacy of slavery by emphasizing the natural law foundations of American constitutionalism. Still, the continued existence of slavery in the nineteenth century created a tension between practice and principle. Within the context of recent revisionist scholarship, Dyer argues that the theoretical foundations of American constitut
His research has been published in Polity, the Journal of Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics and Perspectives on Political Science. Justin Buckley Dyer holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Oklahoma and an MA and Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas, Austin. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Cooper said Excellent Analysis of Constitutional Throught and History, Essential Reading in American Legal and Political Thought. Professor Justin Buckley Dyer's "Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition" recovers the applied logic of antislavery constitutionalism. The book taps directly into the philosophical premises underlying the American Revolution and the Constitution -- reflected so eloquently in the Declaration of Independence. The result is an insightful exploration of how 19th Century antislavery thinkers -- politicians, jurists, and activists alike -- grappl
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