The Confederate Constitution of 1861: An Inquiry into American ConstitutionalismUniversity of Missouri Press, 01 նոյ, 1991 թ. - 192 էջ In The Confederate Constitution of 1861, Marshall DeRosa argues that the Confederate Constitution was not, as is widely believed, a document designed to perpetuate a Southern "slaveocracy," but rather an attempt by the Southern political leadership to restore the Anti-Federalist standards of limited national government. In this first systematic analysis of the Confederate Constitution, DeRosa sheds new light on the constitutional principles of the CSA within the framework of American politics and constitutionalism. He shows just how little the Confederate Constitution departed from the U.S. Constitution on which it was modeled and examines closely the innovations the delegates brought to the document. |
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... C.S.A. constitutions “have the same number of articles with the subject ... framers contended that they were seceding on behalf of the U.S. Constitution ... C.S.A. and U.S. constitutions makes evident the distinctive constitutional ...
... C.S.A. framers were determined to avoid ambiguity regarding the status of the states within the Confederacy. Thus ... C.S.A. version constitutionally recognizes “the sovereign and independent" status of the states; the U.S. preamble is ...
... C.S.A. framers were determined to prevent their Confederate government's constitutional mandate to regulate and adjudicate interstate economic interests from taking precedence over the sovereign status of the states. In other words, the ...
... C.S.A. framers, and states' rights was the constitutional means to realize that objective, with the expectation that states' rights would not prove to be an insurmountable obstacle to an effective general government. Toward the end of ...
... C.S.A. framers committed to the former alternative by semantically modifying their preamble. In the C.S.A. Constitution, language supporting the sovereign status of the states, mutually acting “to form a permanent federal government ...
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Chapter Four The Bill of Rights | 57 |
Chapter Five Institutional Innovations | 79 |
Chapter Six Judicial Review | 100 |
Chapter Seven The American Origins of the Confederate Order | 120 |
Appendix Constitution of the Confederate States of America | 135 |
Notes | 153 |
Bibliography | 169 |
Index | 179 |