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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... liberty, and the choice of the pursuit of happiness.” However, his “axiom" of American political culture has its premise, not in the U.S. Constitution, but in a simplistic reading of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of ...
... liberty laws, and posited their disregard for the fugitive slave laws on the elevation of the Declaration of Independence to national constitutional status, thereby transforming the Union from a compact of states to a nationalistic ...
... Liberty, then, when forced on a people unfit for it, would instead of a blessing, be a curse, as it would in its reaction lead directly to anarchy—the greatest of all curses. No people, indeed, can long enjoy more liberty than that to ...
... liberty of the States as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection." This was to be accomplished by the U.S. Constitution, which established an indissoluble Union (i.e., firm) thereby laying the groundwork for an American ...
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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 |