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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... slavery and the economic system it supported. But to focus attention either exclusively or primarily on the slavery issue, thereby casting the Confederate Constitution off as an ill-fated attempt to legitimatize what was for the most ...
... slavery placed the political combatants on a collision course that went beyond manageable differences of opinion and toward mutually exclusive interpretations regarding key provisions of the U.S. Constitution. This competitive ...
... slave laws, whereas the South relied upon national supremacy to enforce the same. But when the election of 1860 placed Northern interests in control of the national government, their nationalism and the Southern commitment to state ...
... slavery) and Southern commercial prosperity (i.e., funding Northern internal improvements through a protectionist policy adverse to Southern economic interests). Calhoun attributed Northern success to the transition from a federal to a ...
... slavery. Had these two conditions been met, the political equilibrium between the two sections would have been maintained, and the South could have remained in the Union with its honor and safety intact. Had the South not been reduced ...
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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 |