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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788492603321

Titolo

Union & states' rights : a history and interpretation of interposition, nullification, and secession, 150 Years after Sumter / / edited by Neil H. Cogan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Akron, Ohio : , : The University of Akron Press, , [2013]

©2014

ISBN

1-4619-5690-0

1-937378-38-1

1-937378-39-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages)

Collana

& law : legal thought across disciplines

Altri autori (Persone)

CoganNeil H <1944-> (Neil Howard)

Disciplina

342.73/042

Soggetti

Federal government - United States - History - 19th century

Nullification (States' rights) - History - 19th century

Secession - United States - History - 19th century

States' rights (American politics) - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

"A real nondescript : James Madison's thoughts on states rights and federalism / Jack N. Rakove -- James Madison and the constitution's convention for proposing amendments / Robert G. Natelson -- States' rights and nullification in the north : opposition to the fugitive slave laws / Paul Finkelman -- Still too close to call? : rethinking Stamp's "The concept of a perpetual union" / Daniel W. Hamilton -- Secession and breach of compact : the law of nature meets the U.S. Constitution / Stephen C. Neff -- William Rawle and secession : legal rights and political wrongs / H. Jefferson Powell -- The fourteenth amendment and the unconstitutionality of secession / Daniel A. Farber -- Interposition : an overlooked tool of American constitutionalism / Christian G. Fritz -- Originalism's limits : interposition, nullification, and secession / Lee J. Strang -- Union and states rights 150 years after Sumter : some reflections on a tangled political and constitutional conundrum / Sanford V. Levinson -- Remembering our second revolution : sesquicentennial reflections on Civil war Historiography /



Norman W. Spaulding.