Download or read book Constitutionalizing Secession in Federalized States written by Miodrag A. Jovanović and published by Eleven International Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thorough and professional study about secession. Starting from the perspective of contemporary political philosophy, the book explores the relevance of this issue for the theory and practice of federalism, as well as its status under current public international law, and concludes with a comparative constitutional analysis of the subject matter. In the final chapter, it provides a constitutionalized procedure of secession, based on fundamental liberal-democratic values. The book argues that a liberal-democratic response to the secession controversy might consist of the constitutionalization of a right to secession. While a number of recent works in political theory point to the fact that, under certain circumstances, the moral right of a group to secession should be recognized, only a few of them are ready to defend the institutionalization of that right through the instruments of constitutional law. This topical and thought-provoking book is a welcome contribution to the ongoing debate on secession and will be of interest to academics in a variety of disciplines, such as law, history, politics, international relations, philosophy and applied ethics, and to politicians and constitution-drafters.
Download or read book A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States written by Alexander Hamilton Stephens and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1868 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, views on the constitutional reasons for the Civil War.
Download or read book A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States written by Alexander Hamilton Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secession and Constitutional Liberty written by Bunford Samuel and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secession and Constitutional Liberty written by Bunford Samuel and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Can a State Secede written by Emory Washburn and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Nation Indivisible written by Robert F. Hawes and published by Fultus Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is secession legal under the United States Constitution? "One Nation, Indivisible?" takes a fresh look at this old question by evaluating the key arguments of such anti-secession men as Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln, in light of reason, historical fact, the language of the Constitution, and the words of America's Founding Fathers. Modern anti-secession arguments are also examined, as are the questions of why Americans are becoming interested in secession once again, whether secession can be avoided, and how an American state might peacefully secede from the Union.
Download or read book The War Between the States Or Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861 65 written by Albert Taylor Bledsoe and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Republic of Republics written by Bernard Janin Sage and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Documents on Federal Relations written by Herman Vandenburg Ames and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Framing the Solid South written by Paul E. Herron and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South was not always the South. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, those below the Potomac River, for all their cultural and economic similarities, did not hold a separate political identity. How this changed, and how the South came to be a political entity that coheres to this day, emerges clearly in this book—the first comprehensive account of the Civil War Era and late nineteenth century state constitutional conventions that forever transformed southern politics. From 1860 to the turn of the twentieth century, southerners in eleven states gathered forty-four times to revise their constitutions. Framing the Solid South traces the consolidation of the southern states through these conventions in three waves of development: Secession, Reconstruction, and Redemption. Secession conventions, Paul Herron finds, did much more than dissolve the Union; they acted in concert to raise armies, write law, elect delegates to write a Confederate Constitution, ratify that constitution, and rewrite state constitutions. During Reconstruction, the national government forced the southern states to write and rewrite constitutions to permit re-entry into the Union—recognizing federal supremacy, granting voting rights to African Americans, enshrining a right to public education, and opening the political system to broader participation. Black southerners were essential participants in democratizing the region and reconsidering the nature of federalism in light of the devastation brought by proponents of states’ rights and sovereignty. Many of the changes by the postwar conventions, Herron shows, were undermined if not outright abolished in the following period, as “Redeemers” enshrined a system of weak states, the rule of a white elite, and the suppression of black rights. Southern constitution makers in all three waves were connected to each other and to previous conventions unlike any others in American history. These connections affected the content of the fundamental law and political development in the region. Southern politics, to an unusual degree, has been a product of the process Herron traces. What his book tells us about these constitutional conventions and the documents they produced is key to understanding southern history and the South today.
Download or read book The American Union Its Effect on National Character and Policy with an Inquiry Into Secession as a Constitutional Right and the Causes of the Disruption written by James SPENCE (of Liverpool.) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Documents on Federal Relations written by Herman Vandenburg Ames and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period 1789-1861.
Download or read book The American Union written by James Spence and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Nation Indivisible written by Robert Hawes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred and fifty years after the end of the War Between the States, America finds itself embroiled in socio-political controversies that are resurrecting old issues with a new vigor. Among these issues are the proper relationship of the states to the federal government, and the question of whether a state has any right to secede from the Union should Washington's partisan hand grow too heavy. In response, some argue that these questions are meaningless, given the Union's victory over the Southern Confederacy in 1865. Others, however, argue that questions of right cannot be resolved by means of force, and that the only question the war answered is which side could win a military victory over the other. One Nation Indivisible? A Study of Secession and the Constitution takes a hard look at the issues involved with the question of secession in light of the Constitution and various objections raised by such noteworthy historical figures as Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln, men whose views have largely been accepted as gospel in political circles. More modern objections are also considered. In Part One, the Compact Theory of the Union is contrasted with the Nationalist Theory on such questions as when the Union began, whether it was created by the states or the American people as a whole, and what sort of government the Founding Fathers intended to give us. Part Two continues the discussion with a specific focus on Abraham Lincoln's arguments against the secessions of the Southern states in 1861. Among the issues examined here are whether the Union is perpetual, whether the states possess sovereignty, whether states would need the permission of the whole Union in order to secede, whether secession itself is the "essence of anarchy," and the circumstances under which the war between the United and Confederate States began. Part Three moves on to considering more modern arguments against secession, including the idea that secession is simply "un-American," whether the Constitution was suspended under Abraham Lincoln, whether the war between North and South was a moral crusade to end slavery, whether the question of secession should lie exclusively with the Supreme Court, and whether America is too important in world affairs to permit secession. Part Four concludes the study by examining current political trends and whether secession might have any place in America's future. Originally published in 2006, this edition is revised and updated. "The federal government's growth of power at the expense of individuals and natural human communities has been the trend so long now that it has seemed inevitable. But thoughtful people of late have been rediscovering the true decentralist origins of the United States. Robert Hawes states the case beautifully for the forgotten decentralist tradition - which may be our only hope for the preservation of freedom." - Clyde Wilson, Professor of History, University of South Carolina (review of the first edition)
Download or read book A Constitutional History of Secession written by John Remington Graham and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless reference on the right of secession from Britainís Glorious Revolution to Canada's current situation. Born in Minnesota, John Remington Graham is a constitutional-law attorney who served as an advisor on secession to the amicus curiae for Quebec.
Download or read book Claims for Secession and Federalism written by Alberto López Basaguren and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts. The debate has rarely been more important than it is right now, especially in light of recent events in Catalonia, Scotland, Québec and the Sudan - all unique political contexts raising similar questions about how best to balance competing claims for autonomy, interdependence, political voice, and exit. Exploring how various nations have encountered comparable conflicts, some more and some less successfully, the book broadens the perspectives of scholars, government officials, and citizens struggling to resolve sovereignty conflicts with a full appreciation of the underlying principles they represent.
