Fallacies of States'' Rights

Klappentext Barber shows how arguments for states' rights from John C. Calhoun to the present offend common sense! logic! and bedrock constitutional principles. The Constitution is a charter of positive benefits! not a contract among separate sovereigns whose function is to protect people from the central government! when there are greater dangers to confront. Zusammenfassung Barber shows how arguments for states’ rights from John C. Calhoun to the present offend common sense, logic, and bedrock constitutional principles. The Constitution is a charter of positive benefits, not a contract among separate sovereigns whose function is to protect people from the central government, when there are greater dangers to confront.

Product details

• Authors: Sotirios A. Barber, Barber Sotirios A.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2013
• EAN: 9780674066670
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06667-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / Constitutional, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional and administrative law: general