Author: Joseph B. James
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Keywords: amendment, fourteenth, ratification
Number of Pages: 331
Published: 1984-02
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0865540985
ISBN-13: 9780865540989

Author: David Waldstreicher
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: ratification, revolution, constitution, slavery
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-06-23
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0809094533
ISBN-13: 9780809094530

Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery’s place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests of their owners. Five other clauses had implications for slavery that were considered and debated by the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the citizens of the states during ratification. This “peculiar institution” was not a moral blind spot for America’s otherwise enligh

Author: James E. Bond
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: fourteenth, amendment, ratification, reconstruction, walk, freedom, easy
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1997-05-28
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0275957039
ISBN-13: 9780275957032

The Southern ratification debate on the 14th Amendment was a part of the bitter, decade-long struggle to reconstruct and later redeem the South. This book makes clear that amidst all the conflict and cacophony of the period, the commands of the 14th Amendment were widely and uniformly understood. The three great clauses of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment were intended both to guarantee everyone the fundamental rights of citizenship and personhood and to nationalize the protection of those rights within the federal structure ordained by the Constitution. That means that the states were to retai

Author: Jeffrey S. Lanti
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: politics, ratification, comparative, perspective, diplomacy, edged, death, international, treaties, double, life
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0199535019
ISBN-13: 9780199535019

This book represents one of the first comparative studies of international treaty ratification processes in multiple issue areas. The study sets out to fill a gap in political science scholarship by investigating the role that international and domestic political actors and conditions play in the critical, post-commitment phase of cooperation. The book employs the comparative case study method, drawing on original research, elite interviews, and discursive analyses of government documents in Europe, Australia, and North America. Cases examine a select number of treaties on trade cooperation, t

Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: one, part, ratification, september, february, america, library, over, struggle, federalist, constitution, antifederalist, speeches, letters, articles, debate
Number of Pages: 1214
Published: 1993-06-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0940450429
ISBN-13: 9780940450424