title: The conscription act of April 1862 as a constitutional challenge in the confederate revolution
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metadata.value: Powell, Michael A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:46:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:46:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.value: Powell M. A. The conscription act of April 1862 as a constitutional challenge in the confederate revolution. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 613– 626.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.312
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8450
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the years leading up to the American Civil War, the South was sensitive to state rights, focusing
  particularly over the issue of slavery. After secession, and with the formation of the Confederate
  States of America, the governors were viewed, in part, as defenders of state rights. For the first year of
  the war, both the governors and the president of the Confederacy cooperated extensively in an effort
  to win the war. But that would change in April 1862 with the passage of the first conscription statute by
  the Confederate government. This article examines the reactions of the Confederate governors to that
  measure. As the first conscription law in American history, its passage elicited significant opposition
  within the Confederacy. The governors’ responses varied, from refusal to recognize any constitutional
  infringement of a state right, to recognizing a potential violation but delaying a response until after
  the war, to outright hostility and interference with the law’s implementation. Passage of this law led to
  the governors, as a whole, moving from a phase of cooperation with the central government to one of
  a negotiated federalism, leading to conflict over competing resources (e.g., draftees) for the defense
  of the nation as well as the states. This paper challenges the current historiography asserting that the
  Confederate national government was the most centralized national government in America until the
  New Deal in the 1930s by suggesting that the state governors carved out appropriate constitutional
  authority and responsibility during the exigencies of fighting for the nation’s independence. Refs 29.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Confederate States of America
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: federalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Jefferson Davis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Constitution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: John Letcher
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Joseph Brown
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: John Gill Shorter
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: John Milton
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The conscription act of April 1862 as a constitutional challenge in the confederate revolution
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metadata.value: Article
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