11. Positivism and Crisis: The Fugitive Slave Law, 1850—1859

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Prelude: Of Creon and Captain Vere 1
5. 1. The Intellectual Tradition: Slavery, Natural Law, and Judicial Positivism in the Eighteenth Century 8
6. Part I: Nature Tamed
7. 2. Natural Right in Legislation 33
8. 3. Judicial Construction of a Natural Law Text: The "Free and Equal" Clauses 42
9. 4. Statutory Interpretation: In Favorem Libertatis? 62
10. 5. Conflict of Laws 83
11. 6. Perspectives From International Law 100
12. Part II: Rules, Roles, and Rebels: Nature's Place Disputed
13. 7. Some Paradigms of Judicial Rhetoric 119
14. 8. Formal Assumptions of the Judiciary 131
15. 9. Formal Assumptions of the Ant Isla Very Forces 149
16. 10. Positivism Established: The Fugitive Slave Law to 1850 159
17. 11. Positivism and Crisis: The Fugitive Slave Law, 1850—1859 175
18. Postscript to Part II 192
19. Part III: The Moral-Formal Dilemma
20. Introductory Note 197
21. 12. Context for Conscience 201
22. 13. Judicial Responses 226
23. Postscript to Part III 257
24. Appendix 260
25. Notes 268
26. Index 313