Defending the Union
Andrew Jackson's Nullification Proclamation and American Federalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10433869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew S Brogdon (0000-0002-5326-1285, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-273 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670511000064 |
| OpenAlex | W2155860362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
This essay contends that we can better understand Andrew Jackson's distinctive account of federalism by looking outside the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian political traditions. More appropriate peers for Jackson, as a constitutional statesman, are John Marshall and Abraham Lincoln. Existing treatments of Jackson miss these connections because they focus primarily on his roles as party leader and reformer, to the neglect of his constitutional statesmanship. A major cause of this neglect is the apparent inconsistency between Jackson's “nationalist” account of the Union in the Nullification Proclamation and his advocacy of “states' rights” elsewhere, a tension that can be resolved by a closer reading of Jackson's rhetoric. Among other things, this redefinition of Jackson's legacy demonstrates that there is no necessary tension between a strong union and meaningful limits on federal power; nor is there a necessary affinity between narrow construction of federal power and state-compact theory
Constitutional law · Federalism · Jeffersonian democracy · Law and economics · Nullification · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Proclamation · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence
The Federalist
The Union at Risk
Correspondence of Andrew Jackson
The Myth of the Modern Presidency
The Union at Risk
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
The Concept of a Perpetual Union
The American Constitution
States' Rights and the Union
Andrew Jackson and the Judiciary
The American Constitution
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |