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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Spies of Mississippi Spies of Mississippi Rick Bowers The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentou… OL15192074W
Nullification Nullification Thomas E. Woods Asserts that nullification is the constitutional remedy envisioned by the nation's founders to be used to resist Federal power. Presents documents showing the rationale used by States in historic deb… OL15413933W
States' rights States' rights John E. Batchelor Discusses the issue of states' rights and traces the history of conflicts between states' legislatures and a strong central government from the time of the Constitutional Convention to the present da… OL4616447W
McCulloch v. Maryland McCulloch v. Maryland Bonnie Pettifor Examines the Supreme Court case of 1819 in which the issue of state right came to bear on banking practices of the Bank of the United States in Maryland. OL494563W
The new federalism The new federalism Stephen Goode Describes the development of the relationship between the states and the federal government throughout United States history and discusses the present crisis in federalism in which President Reagan s… OL5360110W
The legal ideology of removal The legal ideology of removal Tim Alan Garrison "This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous period, argues Tim Alan… OL6214939W