Law and Civil Disorder

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Law and Civil Disorder

• I. Introduction
• II. A Law Divided
• A. Legal Culture
• B. Compromises
• III. Disorder
• A. Radicals
• 1. Secessionists
• 2. Abolitionists
• B. Early Clashes Lovejoy
• C. Civil Disobedience Thoreau
• D. Resisting Slavery Fugitive slaves
• E. Self-Defense Bloody Kansas
• F. Insurrection Harpers Ferry, Fort Sumter

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Legal Culture

• North
• Democracy
• Rule of law
• South
• Deference
• Force

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Compromises

• Henry Clay

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Secessionists

• John C. Calhoun
• Lawrence Keitt

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Abolitionists

• Garrison
• Mott
• Douglass

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Early Clashes

• Elijah Lovejoy

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Civil Disobedience

• Henry David Thoreau
• Mexican War, 1846

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Fugitive slaves

• Christiana riot
• Jerry Rescue

Edward Gorsuch
Three Christiana defendants
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Self-Defense

• Bleeding Kansas, 1855-6
• Border ruffians
• Sacking of Lawrence
• Pottawatomie massacre

John Brown?
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Insurrection

• Harpers Ferry
• Fort Sumter