Abraham Lincoln, constitutionalism, and equal rights in the Civil War era

ch. 1. Lincoln and the constitution: the dictatorship question reconsidered

ch. 2. "Philosophical cause" of free government: the problem of Lincoln's political thought

ch. 3. Abraham Lincoln and American constitutionalism

ch. 4. Protection of personal liberty in Republican emancipation legislation

ch. 5. Race, law, and politics in the struggle for equal pay during the Civil War

ch. 6. Freedmen's Bureau Act of 1865 and the principle of no discrimination according to color

ch. 7. New orthodoxy in reconstruction historiography

ch. 8. Equality and the Fourteenth Amendment: the original understanding

ch. 9. Constitution and reconstruction.