About Marshall DeRosa

Marshall DeRosa is professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of The Politics of Dissolution and the Rhetorical Quest For a National Identity and The Ninth Amendment and the Politics of Creative Jurisprudence: Disparaging the Fundamental Right to Popular Control.

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Jan 1, 2013

So Much Power in So Few Hands: Reevaluating Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

Liberty Forum
by Marshall DeRosa / 1 Comment

Filed Under: Abraham Lincoln, Declaration of Independence, Emancipation Proclamation, Secession, Slavery

Professor Nichols urges us to revisit the arguments surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation (EP) for two reasons. The second reason noted is that the “constitutional issues at stake . . . are relevant to contemporary American politics.” That’s true enough, especially …