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The Look Within: Property, Capacity, And Suffrage In Nineteenth-Century America, Jacob Katz Cogan
The Look Within: Property, Capacity, And Suffrage In Nineteenth-Century America, Jacob Katz Cogan
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This Note looks at the trajectory of suffrage reform from the late eighteenth century to the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment and argues that reformers were obsessed with the inner qualities of persons. Whereas the eighteenth century had located a person's capacity for political participation externally (in material things, such as property), the nineteenth century found these qualities internally (in innate and heritable traits, such as intelligence). To chart the transformation, this Note examines the debates over suffrage in the state constitutional conventions of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as contemporaneous commentaries.
Part I will describe the …
Compelled Affirmations, Free Speech, And The U.S. Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy, Tobias Barrington Wolff
Compelled Affirmations, Free Speech, And The U.S. Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy, Tobias Barrington Wolff
All Faculty Scholarship
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Immigration Policy, Liberal Principles, And The Republican Tradition, Howard F. Chang
Immigration Policy, Liberal Principles, And The Republican Tradition, Howard F. Chang
All Faculty Scholarship
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Rights Of Slaves And Other Owned-Animals, Alan Watson
Rights Of Slaves And Other Owned-Animals, Alan Watson
Scholarly Works
Part of a number of essays which follow are written by experts from various interdisciplinary fields at the request of Animal Law.
I chose the title with deliberation. My concern in this paper is not with moral theory, but with the law that has given rights to owned-animals, and the extent to which these rights have been enforced.
I believe that there is a three-fold hierarchy as to the extent of these rights in accordance with the animal that is their object. At the top of the hierarchy are rights accorded to slaves under a legal system that is not …
Out Yet Unseen: A Racial Critique Of Gay And Lesbian Legal Theory And Political Discourse, Darren Lenard Hutchinson
Out Yet Unseen: A Racial Critique Of Gay And Lesbian Legal Theory And Political Discourse, Darren Lenard Hutchinson
UF Law Faculty Publications
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