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The Union As It Is

Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861

Peter B. Knupfer

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/2000
Pages: 304
Subject: History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807862551

DESCRIPTION

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.

Originally published in 1991.

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