AuthorTenBroek, Jacobus.
Uniform TitleAntislavery origins of the Fourteenth amendment
TitleEqual under law / [by] Jacobus ten Broek.
EditionNew, enl. ed.
PublishedNew York : Collier Books, 1965.
Description352 p. ; 18 cm.
General NoteFirst ed. published in 1951 under title: The antislavery origins of the Fourteenth amendment.
Bib. Note"Source materials": p. 344-347.
Formatted NoteContents: The forging of the constitutional doctrine -- The District of Columbia -- The Fugitive Slave Law -- The power and duty of Congress -- Paramount national citizenship -- Conclusions : the antislavery origin -- The dissemination of the constitutional doctrine -- Party platforms and resolutions -- John A. Bingham -- The victory of the Republican party -- The consummation of abolition-- the Thirteenth Amendment -- The first two congressional debates -- The third congressional debate -- Reconsummation-- the Fourteenth Amendment -- The Fourteenth Amendment -- Conclusions -- The power of Congress over slavery in the District of Columbia / Theodore Dwight Weld -- A constitutional argument on the subject of slavery / Alvan Stewart -- Can Congress, under the Constitution, abolish slavery in the states? / James G. Birney -- The Constitution of the United States and the proslavery provisions of the 1857 Oregon constitution / John A. Bingham.
SubjectsAbolitionists.
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment.
LC Card Number64-24351
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