Ardent defenders of slavery wrote just such a constitution for the breakaway Confederate States of America. Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, explained one ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

The effort to make the national debt sacrosanct and to repudiate the Confederate ... United States bonds. The Supreme Court did hold that Congress had exceeded its power under the Constitution ...

That relationship was secured by the Constitution, and the states have no prerogative to ... that Abbott and his allies would adopt Confederate rhetoric in his quest to seize control over the ...