The Confederate Constitution of 1861: An Inquiry into American Constitutionalism

The Confederate Constitution of 1861: An Inquiry into American Constitutionalism by Marshall L. Derosa

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Hm!
Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism
by Mark E. Neely Jr.

Has anyone sympathetic to the Confederacy reviewed this book, or addressed it?

Based on the one example that is given in the blurb advertising the book, I would say this: Isn't there a difference between arresting/jailing someone because he may reveal military secrets and (has threatened to do so in the name of journalism?) and arresting someone simply because he opposes a war? If the author wishes to show that the two regimes were equivalent in their respect for civil liberties, he had better show their actions are morally equivalent.

Some associated with the LRC (Thomas Woods: here and here, Thomas DiLorenzo) have defended themselves from the charge of supporting the Confederacy, Mr. Woods especially by stating that he opposes the statism of the Confederacy and its actions (conscription, etc.) as much as those of Lincoln. Does his "anti-statism" go too far?

Of course there are the online self-appointed neo-Confederate watchdogs who warn us that anyone supporting secession or the South or the Confederacy is a racist, a kook, or both. They never address the Constitutional questions involved, especially whether it falls under the competence of the Federal government to address moral questions or if that is proper only to the states. Is chattel slavery wrong? Yes--but is the solution to usurp the power of the states and impose abolition through the use of armed force? (And this was not even Lincoln's rationale.) Or do we leave a solution to the individual states to find? It is easier to ban certain external actions than it is to uproot prejudice and bigotry from the heart, and might it be that the aftermath of the Civil War, Reconstruction and everything else, made such a conversion of heart more difficult than less?

There are plenty of fallacies to be found at such websites; when secession is frowned upon without any basis except for a nationalist sentiment, is it any surprise the response is an ad hominem fallacy or guilt by association?

I hope this post doesn't put Eunomia on the radar screen of the SPLC or any of these other watchdogs.