The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips Abolitionism, Democracy, and Public Interest Law【電子書籍】[ Peter Charles Hoffer ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Examining the life of an early advocate of the legal rights of Black Americans＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this brisk, engaging exploration of 19th-century radical reformer and abolitionist Wendell Phillips, Peter Charles Hoffer makes the case that Phillips deserves credit as the nation’s first public interest lawyer, someone who led the antebellum crusade against slavery and championed First Amendment rights and equality for all Americans, including Black people and women.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As a young lawyer, bored and working at a languishing practice, Phillips nonetheless believed that the law would serve as the basis for meaningful social change, including the abolishment of slavery. While many believed the US Constitution was a virtually faultless, foundational document for governance, Phillips viewed it as deeply racist, proslavery, and, therefore, in contradiction to the Declaration of Independence. Unsurprisingly, many of Phillips’s ideas were viewed as controversial and unpopular at th．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る