What is Our Constitution, League, Pact, or Government? Two Lectures on the Constitution of the United States Concluding a Course on the Modern State, Delivered in the Law School of Columbia College, During the Winter of 1860 and 1861, to which is Appended an Address on Secession, Written in the Year 1851
New York: Printed by Direction of the Board of Trustees, 1861. Disbound. Very Good binding. Item #11022
Octavo. 48 pp. Removed from volume. Generally, a clean copy but for early manuscript page numbers to the top corner of each leaf reflecting the placement in the sammelband from the which it was removed.
German-born, Lieber emigrated to America initially to New England, but took a chair in history and political economy at South Carolina College in Columbia where he authored some of his most important work in political science: Manual of Political Ethics (1838), Legal and Political Hermeneutics (1839), and On Civil Liberty and Self Government (1853), all of which advocated for a strong national union and in opposition to the growing States' Rights movement. As the secessionist fevers rose in the South, Lieber moved to New York and took a position at Columbia University where these lectures were delivered. Oxford American National Biography.
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