Union & states' rights : a history and interpretation of interposition, nullification, and secession, 150 Years after Sumter / edited by Neil H. Cogan.

Contributor(s): Cogan, Neil H. (Neil Howard), 1944-Material type: TextTextSeries: &LawPublisher: Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781937378387Other title: Union and states' rightsSubject(s): Federal government -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Nullification (States' rights) -- History -- 19th century | Secession -- United States -- History -- 19th century | States' rights (American politics) -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Union & states' rights.DDC classification: 342.73/042 LOC classification: KF4612 | .U55 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"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 and nullification in the north : opposition to the fugitive slave laws / 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.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"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 and nullification in the north : opposition to the fugitive slave laws / 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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