Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South

Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South offers historical insights into individual state constitutions and constitutionalism in the antebellum South. These insights come from Professor Don E. Fehrenbacher’s 1987 Lamar Memorial Lectures at Mercer University. In these lectures, Professor Fehrenbacher explores constitutional differences among southern states, constitutional relations between the federal government and the South, and the Confederate Constitution.