Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1860
Genre: Enslaved persons
ISBN:

This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.

An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution

An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution
Author: A.V. Dicey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 729
Release: 1985-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 134917968X

A starting point for the study of the English Constitution and comparative constitutional law, The Law of the Constitution elucidates the guiding principles of the modern constitution of England: the legislative sovereignty of Parliament, the rule of law, and the binding force of unwritten conventions.