Secession and Slavery: or, The Effect of Secession on the Relation of the United Sates to the Seceded States and to Slavery Therein;; Considered as a Question of Constitutional Law, Chiefly under the Authority of Decisions of the Supreme Court; Embracing also a Review of the President's Plan of Reconstruction.

Boston, Massachusetts: A. Williams & Co., 1864. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. 112 pages. Footnote. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Cover worn. Some page soiling. Rare first edition. This book is divided into six chapters: Historical Sketch; The Direct Consequences resulting from the Act of Secession; Some Radical Views considered; The Effect of Contract between the seceded States returning, and the United States; The Emancipation Proclamation; Concluding Summary; and Postscript on the President's Plan of Reconstruction. Joel Prentiss Bishop (March 10, 1814 – November 4, 1901) was an American lawyer and legal treatise writer, referred to as "the foremost law writer of the age." Bishop wrote Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce (1852), which brought him "a constant succession of requests and advice to write other books." Bishop then resolved to abandon legal practice for a life of scholarship. Bishop wrote a book on jurisprudence and legal study and a succession of treatises on family law, criminal law and procedure, statutory interpretation, contract, and tort law, "many of which he shepherded through divers thoroughly revised editions." His commentaries on marriage and divorce and on criminal law and procedure were "highly original and thorough works that significantly influenced their fields." Bishop's books were well received, "judges adopted his views, and practitioners sought his advice." In 1884, the University of Berne awarded him an honorary degree. Because his views were at odds with a post-Darwinian world, Bishop and his works are virtually unknown in the 21st century except by specialists in the history of family law. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Civil War, Reconstruction, Supreme Court, Secession, Slavery, Constitutional Law, Emancipation Proclamation, Contract Law, Military Tribunal

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