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The fallacies of states' rights /

Barber shows how arguments for states' rights from John C. Calhoun to the present offend common sense, logic, and bedrock constitutional principles. The Constitution is a charter of positive benefits, not a contract among separate sovereigns whose function is to protect people from the central...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barber, Sotirios A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: America's oldest constitutional debate
  • Why the states can't check national power
  • John Marshall and a constitution for national security and prosperity
  • The implications of Marshallian federalism
  • Why states' rights federalism is impossible to defend
  • John C. Calhoun's false theory of the Union
  • States' rights as rights only to participate in national processes
  • Why Marshallians should (but may not) win the states' rights debate.