The Reconstruction amendments : the essential eocuments. Volume 1 / edited by Kurt T. Lash.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Lash, Kurt T. (Director)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction to the Collection
  • Part 1. The Antebellum Constitution
  • Introduction to Part 1
  • A. Foundational Documents
  • 1. The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
  • 2. The Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787)
  • 3. The Constitution of the United States and the First Twelve Amendments (1787-1804)
  • B. Federalism and the Structure of Antebellum Constitutional Liberty
  • Introduction to Part 1B
  • 1. The Federalist, No. 32 (Hamilton) (Jan. 3, 1788)
  • 2. The Federalist, No. 33 (Hamilton) (Jan. 3, 1788)
  • 3. The Federalist, No. 39 (Madison) (Jan. [15-18], 1788)
  • 4. The Federalist, No. 43 (Madison) (Jan. 23, 1788)
  • 5. The Federalist, No. 44 (Madison) (Jan. 25, 1788)
  • 6. The Federalist, No. 45 (Madison) (Jan. [25-29], 1788)
  • 7. James Madison, Speech Introducing Proposed Amendments (June 8, 1789)
  • 8. The Alien and Sedition Acts (July 6, July 14, 1798)
  • 9. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 (Nov. 10, 1798)
  • 10. The Virginia Resolutions (Dec. 24, 1798)
  • 11. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1799 (Nov. 22, 1799)
  • 12. James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions (Jan. 7, 1800)
  • 13. St. George Tucker, A View of the Constitution (1803)
  • 14. Louisiana Purchase Treaty (Apr. 30, 1803)
  • 15. Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention (Jan. 4, 1815)
  • 16. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
  • 17. James Madison, Detached Memoranda (1819)
  • 18. Corfield v. Coryell (1823)
  • 19. James Kent, Commentaries
  • Of the Absolute Rights of Persons (1827)
  • 20. John C. Calhoun, South Carolina Exposition (Dec. 1828)
  • 21. James Madison to Edward Everett (Aug. 28, 1830)
  • 22. South Carolina, Ordinance of Nullification (Nov. 24, 1832)
  • 23. Daniel Webster, The Constitution Is Not a Compact (Feb. 16, 1833)
  • 24. James Madison to Daniel Webster (Mar. 15, 1833)
  • 25. Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
  • 26. Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution (1833)
  • 27. William Yates, Rights of Colored Men (1838)
  • 28. Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, NY, Declaration of Sentiments (July 19, 1848)
  • 29. Luther v. Borden (1849)
  • 30. John C. Calhoun, A Discourse on the Constitution (I) (1851)
  • 31. Campbell v. Georgia (1852)
  • 32. Address of the Colored National Convention to the People of the United States, Rochester, NY (July 6-8, 1853)
  • 33. John Bingham, Speech Opposing the Admission of Oregon (Feb. 11, 1859)
  • C. Slavery: Antebellum Law and Politics
  • Introduction to Part 1C
  • 1. Virginia, An Act concerning Servants and Slaves (Oct. 1705)
  • 2. Sommersett's Case (1772)
  • 3. Pennsylvania, An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (Mar. 1, 1780)
  • 4. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785)
  • 5. The Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787)