The Constitution as a Pro-Slavery Document

[Sanford Levinson]

Bill Wiecek wrote a fine book many years ago on "anti-slavery
constitutionalism."  I would also commend Don Fehrenbach's The
Slaveholders Republic as well as Paul Finkelman's copious scholarship on
point. (I will rely on Paul to select the two or three most important
books and articles.)  And, of course, there is Mark Graber's wonderful
new book on Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil, which
argues, correctly I believe, that Dred Scott can be defended on any
theory of constitutional interpretation now accepted within the legal
academy.
 
sandy

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        I'd appreciate receiving information about literature which
argues for (and against) the proposition that the Constitution was a
pro-slavery document.  Thanks.
 
Bobby

Robert Justin Lipkin
Professor of Law
Widener University School of Law
Delaware
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