The fallacies of states' rights /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barber, Sotirios A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Federal government > United States.
States' rights (American politics)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > General.
Federal government.
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government > Philosophy.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > Philosophie.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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