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Authors: Mark A. Graber
ISBN-13: 9780521728577, ISBN-10: 0521728576
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2008
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Mark A. Graber

Mark A. Graber is a professor of government at the University of Maryland College Park and a professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law. He previously taught law and political science at the University of Texas. He is the author of Transforming Free Speech (1991), Rethinking Abortion (1996), and numerous articles on American constitutional development, law and politics. His many awards include the Edward Corwin Prize (best dissertation), the Hughes Goessart Prize (best article in the Journal of the History of the Supreme Court), and the Congressional Quarterly Prize (best published article on public law). He is a member of the American Political Science Association and the American Association of Law Schools. During the 2005-06 academic year, he was head of the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association.

Book Synopsis

Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil offers a new interpretation of the constitutional law and politics of slavery.

Table of Contents

Rehabilitating Dred Scott1
The problem of constitutional evil8
Slavery as a constitutional evil12
Pt. 1The lessons of Dred Scott15
The Dred Scott decision18
Critiques of Dred Scott20
Critiquing the critiques28
Injustice and constitutional law83
Pt. 2The constitutional politics of slavery91
The slavery compromises revisited93
The compromises and constitutional development115
The Constitution and the Civil War167
Pt. 3Compromising with evil173
Majoritarianism and constitutional evil179
Contract, consent, and constitutional evil198
Constitutional relationships and constitutional evil219
Voting for John Bell237
Lincoln versus Bell241
Constitutional justice or constitutional peace252

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