CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN ALABAMA, 1798-1910; A Study in Politics, the Negro, and Sectionalism
Orig. pub. Chapel Hill 1955. Reprinted 1978. Print on Demand Edition 2025. Volume 37 in the James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science
(xvii), ix, 412 pp., index, bibl., new intro. Item #204
"The reading of this book will add immeasurably to one's understanding of the evolution of American civil government in Alabama," states Rucker Agee in Twenty Alabama Books. Professor McMillan discusses the origin and growth of Alabama's six constitutions adopted successively in 1819, 1861, 1865, 1868, 1875, and 1901. All six constitutional conventions and constitutions are studied in their historical setting, and each is related to the existing public opinion, and to the political, economic, and social history of the state. Since Alabama's history, constitutional needs, and problems were common to the South, a history of its constitutions is also a case study in Southern constitutional development.
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