The Limits of Sovereignty : Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy During the Civil War.
Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a view constituted the weaker side of an ongoing argument about government sovereignty and individual rights. What brought about...
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. |
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