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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... compacts. . . . All these laws must be brought to the standard of the laws of God, and must be tried by that standard, and must stand or fall by it. . . . To conclude on this point: We are not slaveholders. We cannot, in our judgement ...
... compact of states to a nationalistic compact of individuals. Due to the Southerners' increasing minority status in the House, Senate, and executive branch, states' rights (a correlative of state sovereignty) became the rallying point of ...
... compact with the other states. The reasons for this union among the states were twofold: first, to deal with foreign threats on the international front, and second, to regulate interstate commerce among the states. The constitutional ...
... compact between them."6 This “unmistakable sovereignty of the States" was the product of a confidence in the states' capacity for self-government, which in turn resulted in a Confederate government constitutionally constrained from ...
... compact each State accepted as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming as to itself, the other party: That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers ...
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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 |