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States' Rights, Southern Hypocrisy, And The Crisis Of The Union, Paul Finkelman
States' Rights, Southern Hypocrisy, And The Crisis Of The Union, Paul Finkelman
Akron Law Review
The southern states did not leave the Union because the national government was trampling on their “rights.” The states that left the union never asserted that they were being denied their “states’ rights” —that the national government had obliterated the lines been between national power and state power. Nor did the southern states complain that the national government was too powerful and so it threatened the sovereignty of the state governments. On the contrary, as I set out below, the southern states mostly complained that the northern states were asserting their states’ rights and that the national government was not …
Symposium: Union And States' Rights: Secession, 150 Years After Sumter, Preface, Neil H. Cogan
Symposium: Union And States' Rights: Secession, 150 Years After Sumter, Preface, Neil H. Cogan
Akron Law Review
A preface to the four papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the Section on Legal History, American Association of Law Schools, held on January 7, 2011, in San Francisco.