The Constitutional Ethics Of Secession And War Is Hell

Author : Charles Francis Adams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 48 pages
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Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0331575817

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The Constitutional Ethics of Secession, And, "War Is Hell" by Charles Francis Adams Pdf

Excerpt from The Constitutional Ethics of Secession, And, "War Is Hell" Two Speeches of Charles Francis Adams Delivered Respectively at Charleston, S. C. December 22, 1902, and at New York, January 26, 1903 And this day Shall be unto you for a memorial and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordi nance for ever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Charles Francis Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : UOM:39015027744880

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The Constitutional Ethics of Secession, And, "War is Hell" by Charles Francis Adams Pdf

Author : CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS (JR.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033880876

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CONSTITUTIONAL ETHICS OF SECESSION, AND, "WAR IS HELL" by CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS (JR.) Pdf

Author : Charles Francis Adams
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497933919

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Constitutional Ethics of Secession and War Is Hell by Charles Francis Adams Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.

Author : Peter Radan
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780700635801

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Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders' Union by Peter Radan Pdf

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 “an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.” The Court ruled “there was no place for reconsideration, or revocation, except through revolution, or through consent of the States.” 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 “slaveholders’ Union. 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.

Author : Louise A. Arnold-Friend,US Army Military History Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433044471393

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The Era of the Civil War--1820-1876 by Louise A. Arnold-Friend,US Army Military History Institute Pdf

Author : US Army Military History Research Collection,Benjamin Franklin Cooling (III)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127836000

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The Era of the Civil War--1820-1876 by US Army Military History Research Collection,Benjamin Franklin Cooling (III) Pdf

Author : US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCBK:C061420964

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Special Bibliography - US Army Military History Research Collection by US Army Military History Research Collection Pdf

Author : William Bruce Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811769365

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Lincoln’s First Crisis by William Bruce Johnson Pdf

Lincoln’s First Crisis concerns five of the most consequential months in American history: December 1860 through April 1861. When Abraham Lincoln swore his oath as president, the United States was disintegrating. Seven states had seceded, and as many as eight seemed poised to join them, depending upon how the new president handled the secession crisis and its flashpoint: Fort Sumter in South Carolina, the heart of the rebellion. The fate of the republic hung in the balance. The Sumter crisis has been hotly debated and deeply researched for more than 150 years. In this thoughtful reassessment, William Bruce Johnson combines thorough research and the latest historiography with a litigator’s methodical analysis and a storyteller’s eye for meaningful detail. Shortly after taking office, Lincoln decided upon a plan to avoid war with the seceded states while keeping his inaugural promise to maintain a Union military presence in the South. Because he chose not to reveal his plan to anyone, rumors soon spread that he was simply afraid to act. One source of such rumors was Lincoln’s secretary of state, William Henry Seward. Resentful that Lincoln had deprived him of the Republican nomination and convinced that Lincoln lacked the political sophistication necessary to deal with the secession crisis, Seward decided to negotiate with the Confederacy on his own and in secret. General Winfield Scott, meanwhile, the Union’s most senior military officer, had for a decade depended upon Seward for political advice, and now considered himself under orders from Seward, not the president. Johnson traces how Seward and Scott sabotaged Lincoln’s plan. From this account, from his examination of various personalities (such as that of Fort Sumter’s commander, Major Robert Anderson), and from his granular research into aspects of the Order of Battle in Charleston, Johnson has here constructed a new narrative of this crucial period, culminating in a new theory of how and why the Civil War began as it did, and how and why, if the new president’s orders had been properly carried out by Seward and Scott, it might have been averted.

Author : United States. Department of State. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Diplomacy
ISBN : HARVARD:HNJ8TM

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A List of Books, Pamphlets and Maps Received at the Library of the Department of State, by Purchase, Exchange, and Gift, During the Period from ... to ... with References to Articles in Periodicals Relating to the Law of Nations, Diplomacy, and Political Science, Supplemented by a List of Periodicals and Newspapers Received by United States. Department of State. Library Pdf

Author : Charles Royster
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307760593

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The Destructive War by Charles Royster Pdf

From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power.

Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : UOM:39015043290579

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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society Pdf

Author : New York Public Library. Reference Dept
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : America
ISBN : UIUC:30112071274390

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Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas by New York Public Library. Reference Dept Pdf

Author : John Franklin Jameson,Henry Eldridge Bourne,Robert Livingston Schuyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : History
ISBN : UCBK:B000476220

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The American Historical Review by John Franklin Jameson,Henry Eldridge Bourne,Robert Livingston Schuyler Pdf

American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.

Author : New York Public Library. Reference Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : America
ISBN : MINN:31951002001866U

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Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas by New York Public Library. Reference Department Pdf