NYU Press The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History (Constitutional Amendments)

Product Description Tsesis explains why the 13th Amendment is essential to contemporary America, offering a fresh analysis of the role the Amendment has played regarding civil rights legislation. Review ...audacious and original. He (Tsesis) offers a blueprint as to how desperately needed reforms...can come about.--Richard Delgado "Michigan Law Review" [A] comprehensive and brilliant book from both a historical and analytical perspective. Drawing from the lessons of history, Alexander Tsesis shows persuasively the relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment to a wide range of the social and economic issues currently facing America, and he offers highly creative arguments that support the use of congressional power under the Thirteenth Amendment as a potent and effective means of meeting and resolving these issues.--G. Sidney Buchanan, Baker & Botts Chaired Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center Alexander Tsesis's invigorating reevaluation of the Thirteenth Amendment agrees with many Lincoln Republicans that it embraced the Declaration of Independence.--Harold Hyman, Rice University For those looking for arguments to revitalize and expand the use of the Thirteenth Amendment, this is an interesting piece of advoacacy.-- "Journal of American History" Tsesis vigorously presents a set of arguments that are rarely found in the conventional legal literature. . . . an interesting and challenging book.--Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School About the Author Alexander Tsesis is Assistant Professor at at the Loyola University School of Law, Chicago.