Union and States' Rights : A History and Interpretation of Interposition, Nullification, and Secession 150 Years After Sumter.

Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: James Madison's Views -- 1. "A Real Nondescript:" James Madison's Thoughts on States' Rights and Federalism -- 2. James Madison and the Constitution's "Convention for Proposing Amendments" -- Part II: Antebellum Arguments -- 3. States' Rights, Southern Hypocrisy, and the Crisis of the Union -- 4. Still Too Close to Call?: Rethinking Stampp's "The Concept of a Perpetual Union" -- 5. Secession and Breach of Compact: The Law of Nature Meets the U.S. Constitution -- 6. William Rawle and Secession: Legal Rights and Political Wrongs -- Part III: Impact of the 14th Amendment -- 7. The 14th Amendment and the Unconstitutionality of Secession -- Part IV: Contemporary Views of Interposition, Nullification, and Secession -- 8. Interposition: An Overlooked Tool of American Constitutionalism -- 9. Originalism's Limits: Interposition, Nullification, and Secession -- Part V: Critical Views of Federalism, States' Rights, and Memories of Secession -- 10. Union and States' Rights 150 Years After Sumter: Some Reflections on a Tangled Political and Constitutional Conundrum -- 11. Remembering Our Second Revolution: Sesquicentennial Reflections on Civil War Historiography -- Index.

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