Confronting Injustice: Moral History and Political Theory

Title Pages
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Abstract and Keywords
	Notes
1.The Balance of Injustice and the War for Independence (pp.6-13)
	Abstract and Keywords
	I Land, Ownership, and Expansion
	II The Conflict and the Consequences
	III The Moral Argument
	Notes
2. Slavery and the Rule of Law in Early Virginia (pp.11-28)
	Abstract and Keywords
	I Introduction
	II Virginia’s Labor Problem
	III English Law
	IV Africans in Early Virginia
	V Colonial Legislation About Slavery
	VI Customary Law
	VII The Slave Trade Argument
	VIII Conclusion
	Notes
3. The Legal Entrenchment of Illegality (pp.29-46)
	Abstract and Keywords
	I Jim Crow6
	II The Supreme Court
	III Legal Theory
	IV Further Reflections
	Notes
4. Unfinished Business: Racial Junctures in US History and Their Legacy (pp.47-84)
	Abstract and Keywords
	I Introduction
	II The Creation of Chattel Slavery4
	III The Legal Entrenchment of Slavery
	IV The First Quasi-Reconstruction
	V The Second Quasi-Reconstruction
	VI Addressing the Legacy
	Notes
5. Corrective Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow (pp.85-111)
	Abstract and Keywords
	I Introduction
	II Compensation, Restitution, and Corrective Justice
		A. The Moral Debt Model
		B. The Material Disadvantage Model
		(p.92) C. The Unjust Enrichment Model
		D. The Institution Model
	III The Role of the Federal Government16
		(p.96) A. The Eighteenth Century18
		B. The Nineteenth Century21
		C. The Twentieth Century24
	IV What Is To Be Done?
		A. The Material Component
		B. The Moral Component
	Notes
6. Normal Law, Nearly Just Societies, and Other Myths of Legal Theory (pp.112-29)
	Abstract and Keywords
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	III
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	Notes
7. Moral Judgment, Historical Reality, and Civil Disobedience  (pp.130-47)
	Abstract and Keywords
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	IV
	Notes
8. Political Responsibility and Resistance to Civil Government (pp.148-76)
	Abstract and Keywords
	I Political Responsibility
	II Tax Refusal
	III Individual Accountability
	Notes
9. Courage and Political Resistance (pp.177-93)
	Abstract and Keywords
	I Political Resistance
	II Saving Lives in My Lai
	III Resisting in Warsaw6
	IV Organizing in Mississippi
	V Postscript
	Notes
10. Epilog: From Politics to Philosophy (pp.194-209)
	Abstract and Keywords
	Notes
References
	Cases cited
	Legislation and other written law cited
	Other colonial law
	Post-colonial law
	Books and articles cited
Index