Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Concise Lincoln Library) By Christian G. Samito

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Long before the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln recognized the challenge American slavery posed to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. A constitutional amendment would be the ideal solution to ending slavery, yet the idea of such an amendment conflicted with several of Lincoln’s long-held positions. In this study, Christian G. Samito examines how Lincoln’s opposition to amending the United States Constitution shaped his political views before he became president, and how constitutional arguments overcame Lincoln’s objections, turning him into a supporter of the Thirteenth Amendment by 1864.For most of his political career, Samito shows, Lincoln opposed changing the Constitution, even to overturn Supreme Court rulings with which he disagreed. Well into his presidency, he argued that emancipation should take place only on the state level because the federal government had no jurisdiction to control slavery in the states. Between January 1863 and mid-1864, however, Lincoln came to support a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery because it worked within the constitutional structure and preserved key components of American constitutionalism in the face of Radical Republican schemes. Samito relates how Lincoln made the amendment an issue in his 1864 reelection campaign, chronicles lobbying efforts and the final vote in the House on the amendment resolution, and interrogates various charges of corruption and back-room deals. He also considers the Thirteenth Amendment in the context of the Hampton Roads conference, Lincoln’s own thoughts on the meaning of the amendment, and the impact of Lincoln’s assassination on the reading of the amendment. Samito provides the authoritative historical treatment of a story so compelling it was recently dramatized in the movie Lincoln.Closing with a lively discussion that applies the Thirteenth Amendment to current events, this concise yet comprehensive volume demonstrates how the constitutional change Lincoln helped bring about continues to be relevant today.

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Thanks in part to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln three years ago, popular attention is turning towards the historical milestone and perpetual socio-legal reverberations of the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Now, author Dr. Christian Samito, Esq., has focused and entire narrative in the Lincoln Concise series on the subject, aptly titled Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment.Samito's book stays focused on the evolution of Abe Lincoln's legal stance on abolition by a national constitutional amendment, from originally nay to ultimately yay; each chapter chronicles (in easy to understand details) how very complicated legal barriers were hurdled by the Lincoln Administration in its ultimate embracing of national abolition. Samito nicely contextualizes how core beliefs that the US Constitution (of the mid-19th century) was an untouchable bedrock of the Founding Fathers, and that any, and all socio-economic changes- could only be made in the existing framework of the Constitution and the original amendments made during infancy the Early Republic. While Lincoln prosecutes the war, he also back channels his way to abolish slavery on a state-by-state basis, as well as issuing the most controversial executive order of all time (i.e. the Emancipation Proclamation). Since countless books have focused on the Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address, Samito stays course with the emphasis on the Thirteenth Amendment. Hopefully, this book and similar monographs can shift the light back onto the Thirteenth Amendment which is to often relegated to the collective "Reconstruction Amendments" (along with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth); too many have forgotten the Lincoln Administration's role in lobbying congress to pass the amendment and that it passed successfully (in Congress) prior to Lincoln's death.Outside of this book and subject, we, as a collective society, forget the painstaking process of amending the national Constitution. Prior to 1865, the last Amendment was made I believe in 1804. To put it into contemporary context, there is now talk of a Twenty-eighth Amendment to overrule the Citizens United decision (just as the Thirteenth Amendment ultimately corrected the Dred Scott decision). The comparison I make here is of the improbability both the Taney and Roberts Courts had of reversing their own decisions, as well as the strong unlikelihood of changing case law by amending the Constitution. But if Lincoln could achieve a amendment during arguably the most trying time of our nation, than quite possibly we can duplicate a similar achievement.

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