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The Union as it is : constitutional unionism and sectional compromise, 1787-1861 / Peter B. Knupfer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knupfer, Peter B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Sectionalism (United States).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 285 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1991]
- Summary:
- The first scholar to trace the meaning and importance of the idea of political compromise from the founding of the Republic to the onset of the Civil War, Knupfer shows how recurring justifications of sectional compromise reflected common ideas about the way governments were supposed to work.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807819964
- OCLC:
- 23652297
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