Union & states' rights : a history and interpretation of interposition, nullification, and secession, 150 years after Sumter /
The third book in the & LAW series addresses the perpetual issue of state sovereignty in the federal union-'states' rights. From the 1770s, through the Confederate states' secession, and continuing until now, a central issue of governance is state power to object to, cancel, or be...
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| Language: | English |
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Akron, Ohio :
The University of Akron Press,
2014
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | & Law
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| Online Access: | ebrary |
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Table of Contents:
- "A real nondescript : James Madison's thoughts on states rights and federalism / Jack N. Rakove
- James Madison and the Constitution's convention for proposing amendments / Robert G. Natelson
- States' rights, Southern hypocrisy, and the crisis of the Union / Paul Finkelman
- Still too close to call? : rethinking Stampp's "The concept of a perpetual union" / Daniel W. Hamilton
- Secession and breach of compact : the law of nature meets the U.S. Constitution / Stephen C. Neff
- William Rawle and secession : legal rights and political wrongs / H. Jefferson Powell
- The fourteenth amendment and the unconstitutionality of secession / Daniel A. Farber
- Interposition : an overlooked tool of American constitutionalism / Christian G. Fritz
- Originalism's limits : interposition, nullification, and secession / Lee J. Strang
- Union and states rights 150 years after Sumter : some reflections on a tangled political and constitutional conundrum / Sanford V. Levinson
- Remembering our second revolution : sesquicentennial reflections on Civil war Historiography / Norman W. Spaulding