A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (with New Foreword)Rowman & Littlefield, 1 sep. 2018 - 620 sidor When it originally appeared, A New Birth of Freedom represented a milestone in Lincoln studies, the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America's foremost scholars of American politics. Now reissued on the centenary of Jaffa’s birth with a new foreword by the esteemed Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, this long-awaited sequel to Jaffa’s earlier classic, Crisis of the House Divided, offers a piercing examination of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln and the themes of self-government, equality, and statesmanship on the eve of the Civil War. “Four decades ago, Harry Jaffa offered powerful insights on the Lincoln-Douglas debates in his Crisis of the House Divided. In this long-awaited sequel, he picks up the threads of that earlier study in this stimulating new interpretation of the showdown conflict between slavery and freedom in the election of 1860 and the secession crisis that followed. Every student of Lincoln needs to read and ponder this book.”— James M. McPherson, Princeton University “A masterful synthesis and analysis of the contending political philosophies on the eve of the Civil War. A magisterial work that arrives after a lifetime of scholarship and reflection—and earns our gratitude as well as our respect.”— Kirkus Reviews “The essence of Jaffa's case—meticulously laid out over nearly 500 pages—is that the Constitution is not, as Lincoln put it, a 'free love arrangement' held together by passing fancy. It is an indissoluble compact in which all men consent to be governed by majority, provided their inalienable rights are preserved.”— Bret Stephens; The Wall Street Journal |
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... rights enshrined in the Declaration, is a doctrine of natural and divine right” (122). Zuckert was also unsure whether Leo Strauss, who so vividly pictured the abyss that yawned between ancients and moderns (not to say, Jerusalem and ...
... rights enshrined in the Declaration, is a doctrine of natural and divine right” (122). Zuckert was also unsure whether Leo Strauss, who so vividly pictured the abyss that yawned between ancients and moderns (not to say, Jerusalem and ...
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... divine right of kings when he said that “we, under Heaven, are supreme head” of the state. In Elizabethan England, that would have been recognized as a doctrine of national independence. In this sense it was democratic doctrine, because ...
... divine right of kings when he said that “we, under Heaven, are supreme head” of the state. In Elizabethan England, that would have been recognized as a doctrine of national independence. In this sense it was democratic doctrine, because ...
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... divine right of kings was in the service of national independence, and hence of popular freedom. We must therefore take notice of how tyrannicide and the divine right of kings would have to reverse their roles in the seventeenth century ...
... divine right of kings was in the service of national independence, and hence of popular freedom. We must therefore take notice of how tyrannicide and the divine right of kings would have to reverse their roles in the seventeenth century ...
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... rights, the safety, and the interest of each may be under the safeguard of the whole ... right to claim the benefits of membership. Nor does the political community ... divine government of the universe, so prominent in the Declaration of ...
... rights, the safety, and the interest of each may be under the safeguard of the whole ... right to claim the benefits of membership. Nor does the political community ... divine government of the universe, so prominent in the Declaration of ...
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... right of “popular sovereignty.” Lincoln would climb to the prominence that enabled him to become president by ... divine right of kings as a fraud. Lincoln picked up where Jefferson had left off, in telling the people themselves—a harder ...
... right of “popular sovereignty.” Lincoln would climb to the prominence that enabled him to become president by ... divine right of kings as a fraud. Lincoln picked up where Jefferson had left off, in telling the people themselves—a harder ...
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Chapter 3 The Divided American Mind on the Eve of Conflict James Buchanan Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens Survey the Crisis | 153 |
Chapter 4 The Mind of Lincolns Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped ItI | 237 |
Chapter 5 The Mind of Lincolns Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped ItII | 285 |
Chapter 6 July 4 1861 Lincoln Tells Why the Union Must Be Preserved | 357 |
Chapter 7 Slavery Secession and State Rights The Political Teaching of John C Calhoun | 403 |
Appendix The Dividing Line between Federal and Local Authority Popular Sovereignty in the TerritoriesA Commentary | 473 |
Notes | 489 |
Index | 539 |
About the Author | 551 |
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