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The South and Southern History

by Clyde Wilson

PART 3

State Rights and the Real Constitution

St. George Tucker, A View of the Constitution of the United States, with Selected Writings. Tucker was the first great American legal authority, who understood perfectly what the Constitution really says.

The works of John Taylor of Caroline. New Views of the Constitution, in a recent edition edited by James McClellan, provides an excellent entry into Taylor's sometimes difficult works. Taylor's Tyranny Unmasked also has a recent edition.

M.E. Bradford, A Better Guide than Reason, Founding Fathers, and Original Intentions

Alexander H. Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States

Marshall L. DeRosa, The Confederate Constitution of 1861

Russell Kirk, John Randolph of Roanoke

John C. Calhoun. The Essential Calhoun, ed. by Clyde N. Wilson, is a good place to start. See also H. Lee Cheek, Jr., Calhoun and Popular Rule, and Margaret Coit, John C. Calhoun: American Portrait

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Is Jefferson Davis a Traitor?

Robert L. Dabney, A Defense of Virginia and the South

See also "The Great Civil War Debate," a video from American Vision with J. Steven Wilkins and Peter Marshall.

Donald Livingston, "Secession and the Modern State," and Clyde N. Wilson, "From Union to Empire," are numbers in the League of the South Papers series. LOS also has available many video and audiotape lectures about Constitutional and other questions. This is only to scratch the surface of a wealth of literature, but it will get anyone started.

A good basic treatment of American government is James McClellan: Liberty, Order, and Justice.