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American political thought

Introduction / Nicholas Buccola

Part I. Lincoln and democracy

Prosperity and tyranny in Lincoln's Lyceum Address / John Burt

Providentialism and politics: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and the problem of democracy / Michael Zuckert

Part II. Lincoln and liberty

Lincoln and the ethics of emancipation: universalism, nationalism, exceptionalism / Dorothy Ross

What if honest abe was telling the truth? Natural rights, race, and legalism in the political thought of Lincoln / Nicholas Buccola

Part III. Lincoln and equality

"The vital element of the Republican Party": antislavery, nativism, and Lincoln / Bruce Levine

Lincoln's competing political loyalties: antislavery, union, and the constitution / Manisha Sinha

Part IV. Lincoln as a liberal democratic statesman

Four roads to emancipation: Lincoln, the law, and the proclamation / Allen Guelzo

Lincoln's Kantian Republic / Steven B. Smith.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Philosophy.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Political and social views.

Democracy > Philosophy.

United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.