Rethinking the American union for the twenty-first century
Subtitle: reflections on state nullification, secession, and the human scale of political order
By: edited and with an introduction by Donald Livingston
Publisher: Pelican Pub. Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gretna, La
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781589809574; 9781455615469
Subjects: Politics and government; Federal government; States' rights (American politics); Republicanism; Secession; Philosophy; Nullification (States' rights)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Donald W. Livingston; title: Secession: a constitutional remedy that protects fundamental liberties / Kent Masterson Brown; title: The founding fathers of constitutional subversion / Thomas Di Lorenzo; title: The Tenth Amendment awakening, the Supreme Court be damned / Marshall De Rosa; title: American republicanism and the forgotten question of size / Donald W. Livingston; title: "To the size of states there is a limit": measurements for the success of a state / Kirkpatrick Sale; title: Too big to fail? lessons from the demise of the Soviet Union / Yuri Maltsev; title: Most likely to secede: U.S. empire and the emerging Vermont independence effort / Rob Williams.