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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... sovereign individuals within their respective states or a national community of sovereign individuals the states notwithstanding? If the former, does a state possess the prerogative to nullify national policies adverse to its interests ...
... sovereign powers by which they ordained and established, not only their separate State constitutions and governments ... sovereign authority at the national level and divested the states of the same, particularly the Southern states ...
... sovereign—the United States of America and the American people."5 Accordingly, state minorities are subject to the national numerical majority, due to the absence of state sovereignty and the presence of the nation's only sovereign ...
... sovereign people of America as opposed to being an act of sovereign states. Thus the Declaration supersedes the Articles of Confederation, the state constitutions, and the U.S. Constitution as fundamental law. The significance of ...
... sovereign—the United States of America and the American people."14. In short, Southern secession was in response to what was perceived to be an advancing and irreversible national supremacy. Upon the certainty of Republican electoral ...
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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 |