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Book SynopsisThis 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?
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Volume Two is splendid. Beautifully written and with learning unsurpassed in our generation. -- Dr. Clyde N. Wilson, University of South Carolina
I am again impressed by the force of your prose. You construct an argument that readers will not be able to ignore. -- Dr. Robert M. Weir, University of South Carolina
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Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments Introduction: Beyond Myths (Madisonian, Federalist, Nationalist and Liberal): Different Framers and Other Intentions, 1787-1833 Chapter One: From Republicanism to Federalism: The Anti-Federalists, States' Rights and a New Federal Republic, 1787-1788 Chapter Two: From Nationalist to Republican: James Madison and the Constitutionality of Nullification, 1787-1798 Chapter Three: What Happened to Nullification, 1800-1828? Chapter Four: History and the Recovery of the Past: John C. Calhoun and the Origins of Nullification in South Carolina, 1819-1828 Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E Endnotes; Bibliography.
