Union & states' rights
Subtitle: a history and interpretation of interposition, nullification, and secession, 150 Years after Sumter
By: edited by Neil H. Cogan
Edition: First edition.
Series: & law : legal thought across disciplines
Publisher: The University of Akron Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Akron, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781937378134; 9781937378387; 9781937378394
Subjects: Federal government; History; States' rights (American politics); Nullification (States' rights); Secession
Other titles: Union and states' rights
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "A real nondescript : James Madison's thoughts on states rights and federalism / Jack N. Rakove; title: James Madison and the constitution's convention for proposing amendments / Robert G. Natelson; title: States' rights and nullification in the north : opposition to the fugitive slave laws / Paul Finkelman; title: Still too close to call? : rethinking Stamp's "The concept of a perpetual union" / Daniel W. Hamilton; title: Secession and breach of compact : the law of nature meets the U.S. Constitution / Stephen C. Neff; title: William Rawle and secession : legal rights and political wrongs / H. Jefferson Powell; title: The fourteenth amendment and the unconstitutionality of secession / Daniel A. Farber; title: Interposition : an overlooked tool of American constitutionalism / Christian G. Fritz; title: Originalism's limits : interposition, nullification, and secession / Lee J. Strang; title: Union and states rights 150 years after Sumter : some reflections on a tangled political and constitutional conundrum / Sanford V. Levinson; title: Remembering our second revolution : sesquicentennial reflections on Civil war Historiography / Norman W. Spaulding.