The fallacies of states' rights
By: Sotirios A. Barber
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674066670
Subjects: Politics and government; Federal government; Philosophy; States' rights (American politics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: America's oldest constitutional debate; title: Why the states can't check national power; title: John Marshall and a constitution for national security and prosperity; title: The implications of Marshallian federalism; title: Why states' rights federalism is impossible to defend; title: John C. Calhoun's false theory of the Union; title: States' rights as rights only to participate in national processes; title: Why Marshallians should (but may not) win the states' rights debate.