Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America - Peter Radan

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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 had been violated.