Abel P. Upshur
This essay is published in honor of Abel P. Upshur’s birthday, June 17, 1790. Today, States’ rights are remembered as a legalistic excuse for the preservation of slavery – a part of the past best… »
Judge Story’s Position On The So-Called General Welfare Clause
This speech was delivered before the annual meeting of the Georgia Bar Association at Tybee Island on June 2, 3, and 4, 1927. Mr. PRESIDENT and gentlemen of the Georgia Bar Association: I make no apology… »
Lectures on the Constitution of the United States
Lecture I Having presented to you, young gentlemen, in some former lectures, my views of the character and principles of the several forms of government, and particularly of the representative and confederate, we will now… »
The Tuckers of Virginia
If any American today were to listen to the nationalists in charge of either the political class or American education at large, they would get the sense that it is settled science that the American… »
Abel P. Upshur’s Critique of Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the United States Constitution
Dr. Donald Livingston at the 2004 Abbeville Institute Summer School:
