{"product_id":"dred-scott-and-the-problem-of-constitutional-evil-paperback-9780521728577","title":"Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Paperback) 9780521728577","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 2006 book offers an interpretation of the constitutional law and politics of slavery.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark A. Graber (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521728577, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 31 March 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.41 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Graber offers an interesting, if controversial, approach to understanding constitutional history and the role of both the President and the Supreme Court in constitutional changes.\" -Council on National Literatures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil , first published in 2006, concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally understood as an effort to mediate controversies between persons who disputed fundamental values, and did not offer a vision of the good society. In order to form a 'more perfect union' with slaveholders, late-eighteenth-century citizens fashioned a constitution that plainly compelled some injustices and was silent or ambiguous on other questions of fundamental right. This constitutional relationship could survive only as long as a bisectional consensus was required to resolve all constitutional questions not settled in 1787. Dred Scott challenges persons committed to human freedom to determine whether antislavery northerners should have provided more accommodations for slavery than were constitutionally strictly necessary or risked the enormous destruction of life and property that preceded Lincoln's new birth of freedom.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The Lessons of Dred Scott: 1. The Dred Scott decision\u003cbr\u003e 2. Critiques of Dred Scott\u003cbr\u003e 3. Critiquing the critiques\u003cbr\u003e 4. Injustice and constitutional law\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Constitutional Politics of Slavery: 5. The slavery compromises revisited\u003cbr\u003e 6. The compromises and constitutional development\u003cbr\u003e 7. The constitutional order modified: 1820–60\u003cbr\u003e 8. The constitution and the Civil War\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Compromising with Evil: 9. Majoritarianism and constitutional evil\u003cbr\u003e 10. Contract, consent, and constitutional evil\u003cbr\u003e 11. Constitutional relationships and constitutional evil\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Voting for John Bell: 12. Lincoln v. Bell\u003cbr\u003e 13. Constitutional justice or constitutional peace.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913130795288,"sku":"9780521728577","price":22.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521728577i_68510224-0b37-495a-80ef-e91444e04687.jpg?v=1691380557","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dred-scott-and-the-problem-of-constitutional-evil-paperback-9780521728577","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}