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001 2008043971
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008 081008s2009 ilu b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aE457.4$b.J32 2009
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100 1 $aJaffa, Harry V.
245 10 $aCrisis of the house divided :$ban interpretation of the issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates /$cHarry V. Jaffa.
250 $a50th anniversary ed.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$cc2009.
300 $axiv, 451 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1958: 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.
650 0 $aLincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858.
600 10 $aLincoln, Abraham,$d1809-1865$xPolitical career before 1861.
600 10 $aDouglas, Stephen A.$q(Stephen Arnold),$d1813-1861.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1857-1861.