CAN A STATE SECEDE? SOVEREIGNTY IN ITS BEARING UPON SECESSION AND STATE RIGHTS
1865 · Cambridge
by Washburn, Emory
Cambridge, 1865. Original printed front wrapper, with reinforced spine. 36pp. A clean and Very Good item.
A former Whig Governor of Massachusetts, Washburn was a respected legal scholar who wrote this pamphlet in early 1865, just before the end of the War. He makes a close examination of the formation of the Union, with appropriate precedents from American and English law, and concludes that a State has no power to secede. He discusses the implications of that conclusion for a constitutional policy of Reconstruction.
FIRST EDITION. Bartlett 5695. II Harv. Law Cat. 872. (Inventory #: 24074)
A former Whig Governor of Massachusetts, Washburn was a respected legal scholar who wrote this pamphlet in early 1865, just before the end of the War. He makes a close examination of the formation of the Union, with appropriate precedents from American and English law, and concludes that a State has no power to secede. He discusses the implications of that conclusion for a constitutional policy of Reconstruction.
FIRST EDITION. Bartlett 5695. II Harv. Law Cat. 872. (Inventory #: 24074)