The Constitution, Law, and American Life : critical aspects of the Nineteenth-century Experience

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. xvii, 197 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Hercules unbound : Lincoln, slavery, and the intentions of the framers / Phillip Shaw Paludan -- "The Law, and Not Conscience, Constitutes the Rule of Action" : the South Bend fugitive slave case and the value of "Justice Delayed" / Paul Finkelman -- Reconstructing female citizenship : Minor v. Happersett / Norma Basch -- The language of liberation : African Americans and equalitarian constitutionalism, 1830-1950 / Donald G. Nieman -- Victorian moralism and civil liberty in the nineteenth-century United States / Michael Les Benedict -- Drug laws and drug use in nineteenth-century America / David T. Courtwright -- Commitment law, family stress, and legal culture : the case of Victorian Alabama / John S. Hughes -- Creative necessity : municipal reform in Gilded Age Chicago / Harold L. Platt. A pristine copy in protective Mylar cover.