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Contents Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Neil H. Cogan 1 Part I James Madison’s Views 1 “A Real Nondescript:” James Madison’s Thoughts on States’ Rights and Federalism Jack N. Rakove 13 2 James Madison and the Constitution’s “Convention for Proposing Amendments” Robert G. Natelson 30 Part II Antebellum Arguments 3 States’ Rights, Southern Hypocrisy, and the Crisis of the Union Paul Finkelman 51 4 Still Too Close to Call?: Rethinking Stampp’s “The Concept of a Perpetual Union” Daniel W. Hamilton 80 5 Secession and Breach of Compact: The Law of Nature Meets the U.S. Constitution Stephen C. Neff 88 6 William Rawle and Secession: Legal Rights and Political Wrongs H. Jefferson Powell 111 Part III Impact of the 14th Amendment 7 The 14th Amendment and the Unconstitutionality of Secession Daniel A. Farber 129 Part IV Contemporary Views of Interposition, Nullification, and Secession 8 Interposition: An Overlooked Tool of American Constitutionalism Christian G. Fritz 165 9 Originalism’s Limits: Interposition, Nullification, and Secession Lee J. Strang 204 Part V Critical Views of Federalism, States’ Rights, and Memories of Secession 10 Union and States’ Rights 150 Years After Sumter: Some Reflections on a Tangled Political and Constitutional Conundrum Sanford V. Levinson 237 11 Remembering Our Second Revolution: Sesquicentennial Reflections on Civil War Historiography Norman W. Spaulding 260 Index 286 ...