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Author: Michael D. Robinson Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469633795 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 311
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Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung in the balance during the fateful months surrounding the clash at Fort Sumter. During this period, Border South politicians revealed the region's deep commitment to slavery, disputed whether or not to leave the Union, and schemed to win enough support to carry the day. Although these border states contained fewer enslaved people than the eleven states that seceded, white border Southerners chose to remain in the Union because they felt the decision best protected their peculiar institution. Robinson reveals anew how the choice for union was fraught with anguish and uncertainty, dividing families and producing years of bitter internecine violence. Letters, diaries, newspapers, and quantitative evidence illuminate how, in the absence of a compromise settlement, proslavery Unionists managed to defeat secession in the Border South.
Author: Michael D. Robinson Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469633795 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 311
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Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung in the balance during the fateful months surrounding the clash at Fort Sumter. During this period, Border South politicians revealed the region's deep commitment to slavery, disputed whether or not to leave the Union, and schemed to win enough support to carry the day. Although these border states contained fewer enslaved people than the eleven states that seceded, white border Southerners chose to remain in the Union because they felt the decision best protected their peculiar institution. Robinson reveals anew how the choice for union was fraught with anguish and uncertainty, dividing families and producing years of bitter internecine violence. Letters, diaries, newspapers, and quantitative evidence illuminate how, in the absence of a compromise settlement, proslavery Unionists managed to defeat secession in the Border South.
Author: Paul C. Nagel Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195000358 Category : Federal government Languages : en Pages : 342
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"The Union" meant meant many things to Americans in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War. Nagel's thesis is that the idea served as a treasure-trove of the values and images by which Americans tried to understand their nature and destiny. By tracing the idea of Union through the crucial, formative years of America's history, he makes clear the nature of the intellectual and emotional responses Americans have had to their country.
Author: Robert F. Hawes Publisher: Fultus Corporation ISBN: 1596820918 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 357
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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.
Author: Paul Midden Publisher: Wittmann Blair ISBN: 9780985922351 Category : Languages : en Pages : 358
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Powerful but divergent interests come together in the turbulent political climate of the US. They converge for a common purpose: to fragment the Union that was won so bitterly 150 years ago. In-the-woods libertarians who resented any governmental influence in their lives joined with religious conservatives who felt that modernity had just crossed too many lines. There were wounded men who could not stop themselves from blaming the government, and there were unprincipled opportunists who did not care what they did so long as they got paid. And there were those whose vocation had become self-aggrandizement, who shared the shallow morals of that group. Behind it all was money. In this era of American civilization, it was possible to amass eye-popping amounts of capital, and those who had it used it to amass even more. Opposing them are men and women who are neither rich nor powerful. There are responsible politicians who understand their charge to preserve the Union. There are responsible public servants who take their job as a public trust. And there are the outliers, patriots who use their sometimes-legal skills to preserve the USA in ways that trusted public officials cannot. Can war be avoided? Can the Union survive?
Author: Paul Martin Midden Publisher: ISBN: 9780985922320 Category : Revolutionaries' spouses Languages : en Pages : 358
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Powerful but divergent interests come together in the turbulent political climate of the US. They converge for a common purpose: to fragment the Union that was won so bitterly 150 years ago.
Author: Daniel J. Whelan Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812205405 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 281
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Human rights activists frequently claim that human rights are indivisible, and the United Nations has declared the indivisibility, interdependency, and interrelatedness of these rights to be beyond dispute. Yet in practice a significant divide remains between the two grand categories of human rights: civil and political rights, on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. To date, few scholars have critically examined how the notion of indivisibility has shaped the complex relationship between these two sets of rights. In Indivisible Human Rights, Daniel J. Whelan offers a carefully crafted account of the rhetoric of indivisibility. Whelan traces the political and historical development of the concept, which originated in the contentious debates surrounding the translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into binding treaty law as two separate Covenants on Human Rights. In the 1960s and 1970s, Whelan demonstrates, postcolonial states employed a revisionist rhetoric of indivisibility to elevate economic and social rights over civil and political rights, eventually resulting in the declaration of a right to development. By the 1990s, the rhetoric of indivisibility had shifted to emphasize restoration of the fundamental unity of human rights and reaffirm the obligation of states to uphold both major human rights categories—thus opening the door to charges of violations resulting from underdevelopment and poverty. As Indivisible Human Rights illustrates, the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that have little to do with promoting the rights of the individual. Drawing on scores of original documents, many of them long forgotten, Whelan lets the players in this drama speak for themselves, revealing the conflicts and compromises behind a half century of human rights discourse. Indivisible Human Rights will be welcomed by scholars and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding the realization of human rights.
Author: Robert Hawes Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781514663486 Category : Languages : en Pages : 328
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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)
Author: Daniel Webster Publisher: ISBN: 9780865972735 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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The debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differing understandings of the nature of the American Union that had come to predominate in the North and the South by 1830. To Webster, the Union was the indivisible expression of one nation of people. To Hayne, the Union was the voluntary compact among sovereign states. The Webster-Hayne Debate consists of speeches delivered in the United States Senate in January of 1830. Herman Belz is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.
Author: Michael D. Robinson
Author: Michael D. Robinson
Author: Paul C. Nagel
Author: Paul C. Nagel
Author: Robert F. Hawes
Author: Paul Midden
Author: Paul Martin Midden
Author: Daniel J. Whelan
Author: Robert Hawes
Author: Landis R. Heller
Author: Daniel Webster