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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... Seward, the target of the derisive nomenclature “the Wizard of the North" by his Southern congressional colleagues, epitomized the Northern position regarding federalism. Appropriately, attention will be focused on Seward and the ...
... Seward expressed positions diametrically opposed to those of Calhoun on two critical points, American federalism and the status of slavery therein. First, Seward maintained that the U.S. Constitution established a national community of ...
... Seward attacked the most important of Southern domestic institutions, slavery, on two fronts. First, he argued that the Constitution does not sanction the institution: “I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man. I submit ...
... Seward was implicitly directing his actual and potential constituents toward noncompliance with the laws of the land regarding the rendition of fugitive slaves, by contending that compliance with such laws was unacceptable because they ...
... Seward's inauspicious utilization of the Declaration of Independence is that it struck at the core of two fundamental assumptions held by Southern statesmen, the sovereignty of the states and the constitutionality of slavery, with the ...
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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 |