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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... republic of America complicates the matter of sovereignty." Within the context of American federalism does sovereignty reside in the people in their national or state capacities? To be more precise, does the U.S. Constitution establish ...
... Republic, as it originally came from the hands of its framers, and that it has been changed into a great national consolidated Democracy.” Led by Calhoun, Southerners maintained that the transition from a “Federal Republic" to a “great ...
... republic? The Federalists (and their ideological heirs, the antebellum Republicans) were convinced that the two, states' rights and a nationally thriving commercial republic, were incompatible and that sovereign states would prove to be ...
... republic to rival the powers of Europe. Calhoun also acknowledged the effects "of an all-pervading commerce, which is daily diffusing over its surface the light and blessings of civilization. . . . But this cannot be unless the ultimate ...
... republic. Suffrage, however well guarded it might be, and however enlightened the people, essentially transfers the execution of the citizens' sovereignty to national government officials who, acting on behalf of the prevailing national ...
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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 |