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Related to the last note—the most interesting example of piercing the veil on states’-rights-as-a-defense was the Fugitive Slave Act… which Macpherson points out was the strongest intervention of the federal government against states’ rights to date, and one of the cornerstone demands of the South in the Compromise of 1850.

My biggest takeaway from reading more about the antebellum lead up to the Civil War is how funny is the modern “it was actually a defense of states’ rights” argument for the South. Macpherson makes it very clear that there is a specific right about which the South very much cared…

So far a great read.

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