The constitutional imaginaries of the Missouri Crisis -- The Declaration of Independence and Black Citizenship in the 1820s -- Abolitionism and the Constitution in the 1830s -- The slaveholding South and the constitutionalization of slavery -- Theories of the federal compact in the 1830s -- Slavery, The District of Columbia, and the Constitution -- The congressional crisis of 1836 -- The compact and the election of 1836 -- The afterlife of the compact of 1836
Summary
"Missouri's application for statehood was immediately and universally recognized as a moment of crisis for the Union. The significance of the moment for the nation was signaled through references to it as the most pivotal debate since the adoption of the Constitution itself. The sectional dimension of the conflict meant that the "Missouri question must necessarily excite warm feelings" reasoned the editor of The American, but the nature of the conflict meant more than that was at stake"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge, viewed on December 16, 2021)
