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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... government under the auspices of the Confederate Constitution. From the Southerners' perspective what they abandoned in 1861 was the deterioration of American constitutionalism, a deterioration initiated and sustained by their political ...
... Confederacy, a government premised upon the consent of the citizenry, and its attending Constitution were essential to the South's political self-determination, convictions most certainly within the tradition of American ...
... Confederate principles are indigenous to the American constitutional system of government. Hence, the Confederate Constitution is relevant because it raised, and continues to raise, pertinent questions that cannot be glossed over if ...
... government itself). As will become evident to the attentive reader, these issues have not been resolved and will not be resolved until viable alternatives to the current course of constitutional-political development are seriously ...
... Confederate States of America was premised upon principles dating back to the American Antifederalists of the constitutional convention. This is to say neither that the Confederate ... government of, by, and for the people." Chapter One ...
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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 |