The Confederate Constitution as the trigger for the American Civil War

Cordula Zwanzig

• Publisher: GRIN Verlag
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9783656606598
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Table of contents

• Moving downwards from the centre pillar of the Civil War scale, the base shall now be examined according to Arthur Bestor’s argumentation. As an attempt to diminish the severity of Secession in the post war era, the decision had often been justified b...
• Obviously, other reasons are not being neglected but nevertheless all are described as being based on the constitution of the United States.23F Bestor interprets the decreasing respect for the constitution by the future Confederacy with regard to a l...
• Further on, the author asks the very valid question why not just yet another compromise was agreed on.26F Various answers might explain why slavery after ages produced a dissension of opinions that it antagonised a people altogether. Bestor mainly fo...
• Traditionally, the reading would be that new territory is property of the United States and is therefore governed by them. Slavery opponents, on the contrary, relied on the “constitutional principle” to balance out the quantity of slavery and non-slav...
• Finally, pro-slavery forces, would have perverted the facts suchlike: The national government had to protect slavery in the states where it was established already, equally protect settlers in new territories and on top of that respect each states sov...
• The most essential cause of the war is the generation of a new constitution. The Confederacy did not only oppose themselves to the North in heated arguments but in fact rationally wrote a long and reasoned paper defining their own nationality. The sha...
• Although a number of historians claim there had been “no nationalism in antebellum era”, in fact, local peculiarities transformed into two national identities.31F Hence, a debate was opened on whether the founding fathers had created a national state...
• In founding the Confederate States of America in 1861, the very opposite happened: A sovereign and independent confederacy with its own legislative, executive and judicative was being founded.34F Although the wordings mostly resembles, the Confederac...