The limits of sovereignty : property confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War

The limits of sovereignty : property confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War /

Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a view constituted the weaker side of an ongoing argument about government sovereignty and individual rights. What brought about...

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Main Author: Hamilton, Daniel W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Subjects:
Enemy property > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Law and legislation.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Confiscations and contributions.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Claims.
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Table of Contents:
  • Legislative property confiscation before the Civil War
  • Radical property confiscation in the Thirty-seventh Congress
  • The conservative assault on confiscation
  • The moderate coup
  • The Confederate Sequestration Act
  • The ordeal of sequestration
  • Civil War confiscation in the reconstruction supreme court
  • The limits of sovereignty.

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