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Book Review


The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History. By Alexander Tsesis. (New York: New York University Press, 2004. x, 229 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-8276-0.)
The law professor Alexander Tsesis, advocating "Thirteenth Amendment activism" (p. 162), wrote The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom to convince Congress to revive this "sparsely used and little-defined" amendment and to urge courts to interpret it so "the full wisdom" of the amendment's "humanistic principles" can be tapped (p. 92). After examining antebellum and postbellum political, social, and legal history as well as the theoretical construct of liberty and freedom, Tsesis concludes that this new approach must interpret the amendment contextually, upholding radical and abolitionist views, the principles of the civil rights movement, and modern sensibilities. . . .
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