Constitutional Unionists: The Party that Tried to Stop Lincoln and Save the Union

2007/05/16 by Don Green · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · Arts and Humanities · #American Constitutional Law and Politics #American History and Culture #European Political History Analysis

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2007.00179.x

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Abstract

On 12 February 1860, nine months before the November presidential election, as the fate of the nation hung by a thread, the national Constitutional Union Party announced its formation with a clario...

Cited by

• Constitutional Union Party (United States) [wikipedia]
• Whig Party (United States) [wikipedia]

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