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A View of the Constitution of the United States of America Second Edition (Paperback)
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A View of the Constitution of the United States of America Second Edition (Paperback)
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This treatise was the first comprehensive study of the United
States Constitution, and one of the most important. Originally
published: Philadelphia: Philip H. Nicklin, 1829. viii, 349 pp.
Though concise, Rawle provides a systematic analysis of the
Constitution's articles, as well as its historical background and
philosophy. It is also a historically significant work because it
suggests that states have a right to secede from the Union. A
popular textbook used in schools with large numbers of southern
pupils, such as the U.S. Military Academy, it and is generally
considered to have influenced the leaders and supporters of the
Confederacy).
"Though admittedly a valuable and able study, Rawle's View of the
Constitution stirred up controversy. Rawle himself was a
Federalist, but his studies in government had led him to the
judgment that the Union was not irrevocable. His final chapter on
"The Union" includes a detailed statement that the right of
secession was necessary to the fundamental right of a people to
choose their own form of government. (. . .) In several ways, Rawle
may be considered as providing the transitional step between the
North and the South. His View was published midway between the
inauguration of the Federal Government and the outbreak of the War
Between the States." --Elizabeth Kelley Bauer, Commentaries on the
Constitution, 1790-1860 63).
WILLIAM RAWLE 1759-1836] was a pillar of Pennsylvania's legal
establishment and a highly regarded attorney and educator. In 1791
President George Washington appointed him the U.S. district
attorney for Pennsylvania. In 1830 Rawle helped revise the civil
code of Pennsylvania.
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