Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition

by Justin Buckley Dyer

Book Overview

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. Within the context of recent revisionist scholarship, Dyer argues that the theoretical foundations of American constitutionalism - which he identifies with principles of natural law - were antagonistic to slavery. Still, the continued existence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107454352
• ISBN13: 9781107454354
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"