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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... commitment to constitutional 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 ...
... commitment to constitutional government has been overshadowed by what is generally understood as the raison d'être of the Confederacy: slavery and the economic system it supported. But to focus attention either exclusively or primarily ...
... commitment to state sovereignty crystallized. Such fluctuations between nationalism and state sovereignty certainly had their precedents. The War of 1812 resulted in the Hartford Convention as the New England states threatened to secede ...
... commitment to states' rights to take precedence over their simultaneous commitment to an effective central government possessing the capacity to pursue the mutual interests of the states in promoting the development of a commercial ...
... commitments to states' rights and an effective general government, in contrast to the national supremacy model, the political philosophy of John C. Calhoun, the preeminent states' rights advocate will be contrasted with the political ...
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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 |