States' rights and the union : imperium in imperio, 1776-1876 /
America's leading constitutional historian presents the first history of states' rights in the United States, surveying the concept's history from the Declaration of Independence to the end of Reconstruction. McDonald (history, U. of Alabama) explores the balance between general and l...
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| Language: | English |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
2000.
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| Series: | American political thought.
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Table of Contents:
- Problem of divided sovereignty
- Compact
- Federalist era
- Jeffersonians
- Era of mixed feelings, 1815-1828
- States' rights triumphant
- Government in limbo, 1837-1845
- Changed dynamic, 1845-1852
- Dissolving the union
- Civil War and reconstruction
- Doctrine transformed.