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Partisanship and Confederate Constitution-Making Reconsidered: A Response to Bensel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Jeffery A. Jenkins
Affiliation:
Michigan State University

Abstract

In his response to my essay on the connection between partisan machinations in the Confederate Constitutional Convention and the disappearance of Democrat-Whig divisions in the Confederacy, Professor Richard Bensel raises a number of interesting arguments as to why partisanship was not a factor during the making of the Confederate Constitution. Additionally, Professor Bensel suggests a different avenue to examine the link between partisanship and constitution-building, specifically state-level constitutional conventions in the South where parties were known to be active and played a crucial role in decision-making.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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