Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part I -- Chapter 1 A Divided Lincoln? -- Chapter 2 Stephen A.Douglas The Missing Constitutional Basis -- Part II -- Chapter 3 Alexander H.Stephens Slavery,Secession,and the Higher Law -- Chapter 4 John C.Calhoun The Politics of Interest -- Chapter 5 George Fitzhugh The Tur to History -- Chapter 6 The Attack on Locke -- Part III Abolitionism Natural Justice and Its Limits -- Chapter 7 Henry David Thoreau The Question of Political Engagement -- Chapter 8 William Lloyd Garrison From Disunionist to Lincoln Emancipationist -- Chapter 9 Frederick Douglass Antislavery Constitutionalism and the Problem of Consent -- Part IV Conclusion The Case for Politics -- Chapter 10 Freedom,Political and Economic -- Chapter 11 Between Legalism and the Higher Law -- Chapter 12 Lincoln 's Defense of Politics -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.