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Union & states' rights : a history and interpretation of interposition, nullification, and secession, 150 years after Sumter /
Edited by a well-versed legal scholar of constitutional law, civil rights, and civil and criminal procedures, this volume is a collection of papers on a central issue of governance in the United States; namely, what is the power of the states to object to and cancel federal law with which they disag...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Akron, Ohio :
The University of Akron Press,
2014
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | & Law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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, southern hypocrisy, and the crisis of the union / 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.