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Framing the Solid South : The State Constitutional Conventions of Secession, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861 - 1902 /

"Beginning in the antebellum period and continuing through Secession, Reconstruction, and after, Southern States went through a period of intense constitution writing and rewriting mostly through a series of constitutional conventions. These conventions wrote constitutions that protected slaver...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herron, Paul E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Antebellum Southern State Constitutionalism
  • Secession, Sovereignty and state constitutional revision
  • Framing the Southern Republic
  • Presidential requests
  • Congressional demands
  • Reaction, retrenchment, an resistance
  • Appendix A. All state constitutional conventions
  • Appendix B. Federal supremacy clauses in all state constitutions.