Uncivil Warriors: The Lawyers' Civil War

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: A Civil War Of, By, and For Lawyers? -- Prologue: The Inseparability of Politics and Law: The First Lincoln-Douglas Debate -- Chapter One: The Contested Legality of Secession -- Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Cabinets and Two Congresses -- Chapter Three: In Re Merryman and its Progeny -- Chapter Four: Was Secession a Crime? -- Chapter Five: An Emancipation Proclamation -- Chapter Six: "A New Birth of Freedom"--Epilogue: The Lawyers' Reconstruction -- Conclusion: The Lawyers' Civil War in Retrospect

• | Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 241 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/HISTORY
• | ISBN-10: 0190851767
• | ISBN-13: 9780190851767