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Era of the Oath : Northern Loyalty Tests during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Harold Melvin Hyman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©1954Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781512812435
  • 9781512817096
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.7/8
LOC classification:
  • E458.8
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: Loyalty on Demand -- 1. Congress, Cabinet, and Civil Servants -- 2. The First Year: Loyalty Tests Spread -- 3. Loyalty Defined: The Ironclad Test Oath -- 4. The Key to Freedom -- 5. A Problem of Peace: Postwar Administration and the Test Oath -- 6. Congress, the Executive, and the Test Oath -- 7. The Personal Factor in Loyalty Oaths -- 8. Vacant Chairs in Congress -- 9. Bench, Bar, and Oath -- 10. The Supreme Court Decides -- 11. First Breach -- 12. Final Repeal -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Table of Cases Cited -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512817096

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: Loyalty on Demand -- 1. Congress, Cabinet, and Civil Servants -- 2. The First Year: Loyalty Tests Spread -- 3. Loyalty Defined: The Ironclad Test Oath -- 4. The Key to Freedom -- 5. A Problem of Peace: Postwar Administration and the Test Oath -- 6. Congress, the Executive, and the Test Oath -- 7. The Personal Factor in Loyalty Oaths -- 8. Vacant Chairs in Congress -- 9. Bench, Bar, and Oath -- 10. The Supreme Court Decides -- 11. First Breach -- 12. Final Repeal -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Table of Cases Cited -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In English.

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