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04794aam a2200637 i 4500 001 E197C4FA141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 230419s2023 ksu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023004236 020 $a 0700635815 020 $a 9780700635818 020 $a 0700635807 020 $a 9780700635801 035 $a (OCoLC)1391451026 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d WLL $d GUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a KF4613 $b .R33 2023 084 $a HIS036050 $a HIS036050 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Radan, Peter, $e author. 245 10 $a Creating a more perfect Slaveholders' Union : $b slavery, the Constitution, and secession in antebellum America / $c Peter Radan. 264 1 $a Lawrence : $b University Press of Kansas, $c [2023] 300 $a xxviii, 424 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Constitutional thinking 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a "An irrepressible conflict" : slavery and the Union's territorial expansion -- "An indestructible Union?" : nationalist and compact theories of the Constitution -- "A slaveholders' union?" : the Constitution and slavery -- "Towards a more perfect Slaveholders' union?" : breaches of the Constitution's slavery provisions -- The final word. 520 $a "In Texas v. White (1869), the Supreme Court ruled that the unilateral secession of a state from the Union was unconstitutional because the Constitution created Ìan indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.Ì The Court ruled Ìthere was no place for reconsideration, or revocation, except through revolution, or through consent of the States.Ì In his iconoclastic work, Peter Radan demonstrates why the Court’s ruling was wrong and why, on the basis of American constitutional law in 1860–1861, the unilateral secessions of the Confederate states were lawful on the grounds that the United States was forged as a Ìslaveholders’ Union.Ì Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union addresses two constitutional issues: first, whether the states in 1860 had a right to secede from the Union, and second, what significance slavery had in defining the constitutional Union. These two matters came together when the states seceded on the grounds that the system of government they had agreed to—namely, a system of human enslavement—had been violated by the incoming Republican administration. The legitimacy of this secession was anchored, as Radan demonstrates, in the compact theory of the Constitution, which held that because the Constitution was a compact between the member states of the Union, breaches of its fundamental provisions gave affected states the right to unilaterally secede from the Union. In so doing the Confederate states sought to preserve and protect their peculiar institution by forming a more perfect slaveholders’ Union. Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union stands as the first and only systematic analysis of the legal arguments mounted for and against secession in 1860–1861 and reshapes how we understand the Civil War and, consequently, the history of the United States more generally"--Book jacket. 650 0 $a Secession $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Constitutional history $z United States. 650 0 $a States' rights (American politics) $x History. 650 0 $a Nullification (States' rights) 650 0 $a Slavery $x History $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Slavery $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Revolution, 1775-1783. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 1783-1815. 650 6 $a Secession $z Etats-Unis $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Histoire constitutionnelle $z Etats-Unis. 650 6 $a Nullification. 651 6 $a Etats-Unis $x Histoire $y 1775-1783 (Revolution) 651 6 $a Etats-Unis $x Histoire $y 1783-1815. 650 7 $a LAW / Legal History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Constitutional history $2 fast 650 7 $a Nullification (States' rights) $2 fast 650 7 $a Secession $2 fast 650 7 $a Slavery $x Law and legislation $2 fast 650 7 $a States' rights (American politics) $2 fast 651 7 $a United States $2 fast 648 7 $a 1700-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History $2 fast 776 08 $i Online version: $a Radan, Peter. $t Creating a more perfect Slaveholders' Union $d Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2024 $z 9780700635825 $w (DLC) 2023004237 830 0 $a Constitutional thinking 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517012607.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E197C4FA141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search