Nullification, A Constitutional History, 1776-1833 James Madison and the Constitutionality of Nullification, 1787-1828

by Wood, W. Kirk

• ISBN13: 9780761845683
• ISBN10: 0761845682
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-16
• Publisher: UPA
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Summary

This book asks the questions: if Nullification was constitutional and an American not Southern or sectional principle of republican and federal government, what happened to it? How did it come to be viewed as something unconstitutional, sinister, and even disunionist? This second volume of Nullification, A Constitutional History, 1787-1828 is the first to answer this critical question. After tracing the origins of the first and second Nullification movements in America (Virginia in the 1790s and New England from 1808 to 1815) and characterizing them both to be defenses of the republic and its federal, not national character (with Nullification as a constitutional veto or negative given to the states for the preservation of their reserved rights), the early rejection of nullification as an original intention is then explained.

Author Biography

W. Kirk Wood, Ph.D., is professor of history at Alabama State University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xxv
Introduction Beyond Myths (Madisonian, Federalist, Nationalist and Liberal): Different Framers and Other Intentions, 1787-1833	p. xxvii
From Republicanism to Federalism: The Anti-Federalists, States' Rights and a New Federal Republic, 1787-1788	p. 1
From Nationalist to Republican: James Madison and the Constitutionality of Nullification, 1787-1798	p. 39
What Happened To Nullification, 1800-1828?	p. 73
History and the Recovery of the Past: John C. Calhoun and the Origins of Nullification in South Carolina, 1819-1828	p. 109
	p. 119
	p. 133
	p. 139
	p. 147
	p. 157
Endnotes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 229
Author Index	p. 293
Subject Index	p. 295
About The Author	p. 307
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