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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.