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Was Washington's First Term Legitimate? Texas v. White and the Constitutional Convention
Slade Mendenhall · 2020
A working paper on Texas v. White (1869), the Supreme Court decision holding that a state could not leave the union on its own, and on what its reasoning implies about how the Constitution was adopted.