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Named Person: | Daniel Webster; Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Daniel Webster |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert F Hawes |
ISBN: | 9781514663486 1514663481 1596820918 9781596820913 |
OCLC Number: | 1104807732 |
Notes: | Originally published in 2006. |
Description: | 450 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Part One : The compact theory versus the nationalist theory of the Union. Position One : The Union is older than the states. Position Two : The Constitution is a Union of "people." Webster's key arguments against the compact theory. One last note on Daniel Webster -- Part Two: Lincoln's case against Southern secession. Position One: The Union belongs to the "people." Position Two: the Union is perpetual. Position Three : States would require permission to leave the Union. Position Four : There is no such thing as 'state sovereignty.' Position Five : Southerners were guilty of rebellion and treason. Position Six : The Southern States might have formed non-republican governments. Position Seven : The Southern States might have defaulted on the debts and obligations of the Union. Position Eight : Secession is anarchy. Position Nine : The South started it -- Part Three : The modern case against secession. Position One : Secession is un-American. Position Two : The Constitution and the laws were suspended under Lincoln. Position Three : Lincoln fought to end slavery. Position Four : The United States & Conferderate States could not have peacefully coexisted. Position Five : The United States of America is too important in world affairs to permit secession. Position Six : The Founders opposed secession and hoped for consolidation. Position Seven : The Southern States entered into an unconstitutional confederation. Position Eight : Secession is a question for the Supreme Court -- Part Four : The Lincoln legacy and modern secession movements. The war for the American ideal. A changing country, a growing backlash. Potentially helpful constitutional amendments. Secession -- American style -- Appendix A: The Declaration of Independence -- Appendix B: The Articles of Confederation -- Appendix C: The Constitution of the United States -- Appendix D : Calhoun versus Webster -- Appendix E : Abraham Lincoln on the Union and secession -- Appendix F: The Emancipation Proclamation -- Appendix G: Nullifcation revisited. |
Other Titles: | Study of secession and the Constitution |
Responsibility: | by Robert F. Hawes Jr. |
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- Webster, Daniel, -- 1782-1852 -- Views on secession.
- Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Views on secession.
- Secession -- Southern States.
- Federal government -- United States.
- Constitutional history -- United States.
- Nationalism -- United States.
- Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865.
- Webster, Daniel, -- 1782-1852.
- Constitutional history.
- Federal government.
- Nationalism.
- Secession.
- Southern States.
- United States.