Unequal at the Starting Line: Creating Participatory Inequalities across Generations and among Groups

Governmen

Ethos Amerika : Sikap Masyarakat terhadap Kapitalisme dan Demokrasi

Yogyakartaxxii, 516 hlm.; 21 x15 cm

State Sovereignty: Alexander H. Stephens' Defense of Particularist Federalism

The debate over the nature of American federalism did not end, as is so frequently maintained, with the victory of die North in the Civil War. Indeed, it is inconceivable that a conflict of such proportions could ever; be reconciled as readily in the intellectual sphere as in the military. For at least three decades following the termination of that struggle, scholars, jurists and publicists continued, with a fervor and prolixity rivalling that of the pre-war debates, to explore the issues and constitutional questions associated with nullification, secession and the locus of sovereignty in the American Union. The great bulk of this post-war writing on federalism was the work of the victors and tended, therefore, to express “nationalist” or “dual federalist” interpretations. Despite an atmosphere hostile to the dissemination of theories that continued to view the states as sovereign bodies, defenses of particularism continued to appear. Among these was the treatise on constitutional history produced by Alexander H. Stephens.</jats:p