Research Catalog

Title

Crisis of the house divided : an interpretation of the issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates / Harry V. Jaffa.

Author

Jaffa, Harry V.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Description

xiv, 451 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Political career before 1861
• Douglas, Stephen A. 1813-1861
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858
• United States > Politics and government > 1857-1861

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1958: the crisis in historical judgment -- 1858: Lincoln versus Douglas: the alternatives -- Slavery -- Manifest destiny -- The repeal of the Missouri Compromise I: the legal power and practical impotence of federal prohibitions of slavery in the territories -- The repeal of the Missouri Compromise II: did the Compromise of 1850 "supersede" the Missouri Compromise? -- The repeal of the Missouri Compromise III: what Douglas intended on January 4, 1854 -- The repeal of the Missouri Compromise IV: tragedy, the extremes crush the mean -- The teaching concerning political salvation -- The teaching concerning political moderation -- The legal tendency toward slavery expansion -- The political tendency toward slavery expansion -- The intrinsic evil of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise -- The universal meaning of the Declaration of Independence -- The form and substance of political freedom in the modern world -- Popular sovereignty: true and false -- The meaning of equality: abstract and political -- The "natural limits" of slavery expansion -- Did the Republicans abandon Lincoln's principles after the election of 1860? -- The end of manifest destiny -- Appendix I: Some of the historical background to the Lincoln-Douglas debates -- Appendix II: Some notes on the Dred Scott decision.

ISBN

• 9780226391182 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0226391183 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008043971

OCLC

• 262429385
• SCSB-10970040

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library