PPT Slide
“The conjunction of political ideology and political necessity resulted in congressional Republicans embracing a revolutionary theory of constitutionalism. To achieve political power in the South, to preserve their wartime objectives of Unionism and free
“The [Republican] framers’ legal theory ... held the potential of ending federalism and establishing a consolidated, unitary state. That the framers eschewed this extreme institutional arrangement should not deflect attention from the other ways in whic