Book contents
- The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution
- Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
- The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Constitutional Imaginaries of the Missouri Crisis
- 2 The Declaration of Independence and Black Citizenship in the 1820s
- 3 Abolitionism and the Constitution in the 1830s
- 4 The Slaveholding South and the Constitutionalization of Slavery
- 5 Theories of the Federal Compact in the 1830s
- 6 Slavery, the District of Columbia, and the Constitution
- 7 The Congressional Crisis of 1836
- 8 The Compact and the Election of 1836
- 9 The Afterlife of the Compact of 1836
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2020
Book contents
- The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution
- Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
- The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Constitutional Imaginaries of the Missouri Crisis
- 2 The Declaration of Independence and Black Citizenship in the 1820s
- 3 Abolitionism and the Constitution in the 1830s
- 4 The Slaveholding South and the Constitutionalization of Slavery
- 5 Theories of the Federal Compact in the 1830s
- 6 Slavery, the District of Columbia, and the Constitution
- 7 The Congressional Crisis of 1836
- 8 The Compact and the Election of 1836
- 9 The Afterlife of the Compact of 1836
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In this concluding chapter, I consider how the development of a particular attachment to the founding has shaped constitutional development in the United States and how an alterative grounding in the constitutional thought of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson might provide intellectual resources for a renewed democratic constitutionalism in contemporary American politics.
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- The Antebellum Origins of the Modern ConstitutionSlavery and the Spirit of the American Founding, pp. 245 - 257Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020