Prawo do secesji. Argument konstytucyjny i metaprawny Starego Południa Stanów Zjednoczonych

• Authors: Tomasz Tulejski

Title variants

EN

Right to Secession. The Constitutional and Meta-Legal Argument of the Old South of the United States

Abstracts

PL

W okresie poprzedzającym wybuch wojny secesyjnej teoretycy i politycy Starego Południa Stanów Zjednoczonych (Calhoun, Hayne, Tucker, Taylor of Caroline) wypracowali teoretyczne instrumenty oporu wobec ich zdaniem tyrańskim praktykom rządu federalnego. Obok interpozycji i nullifikacji najbardziej radykalnym środkiem było prawo do secesji. Autor w artykule dokonuje rozróżnienia argumentacji na argumentację konstytucyjną i metaprawną. Pierwsza odwołuje się do myśli Founding Fathers, ducha roku ’98 i koncepcji praw stanowych. Głównymi jej elementami są: kontraktowy charakter Unii, pierwotna suwerenność stanów oraz interpretacja użytego w konstytucji zwrotu „My, Naród”. Uzasadnienie filozoficzne odwołuje się natomiast do prawa oporu wobec tyrańskiego rządu zawarte w Deklaracji Niepodległości. Oba te uzasadnienia występowały wspólnie i autor poszukuje ich w aktach secesji Karoliny Południowej i Konstytucji Skonfederowanych Stanów.

EN

Before the outbreak of the Civil War, the theorists and politicians of the South of the US developed the theoretical instruments of resistance to what they considered tyrannical practices of the federal government. Just next to interposition and nullification, the most radical measure was the right of secession. In the article, the author distinguishes between constitutional and meta-legal arguments. The first ones refer to the thought of the Founding Fathers, the spirit of ‘98 and the concept of states’ rights. Its main elements are: the contractual nature of the Union, the original sovereignty of the states and the interpretation of the phrase: “We the People” used in the Constitution. In turn the philosophical justification refers to the right of resistance to tyrannical government contained in the Declaration of Independence. The two group of justifications appeared together, and the author searches for them in the acts of secession of South Carolina and the CS Constitution

Keywords

PL

secesja; nullifikacja; Stare Południe; prawa stanowe; wojna secesyjna

EN

secession; nullification; Civil War; Old South; states’ rights

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Przegląd Prawa Konstytucyjnego
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 2(72)
• Pages: 245-256

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Tomasz Tulejski

• Uniwersytet Łódzki

• https://orcid.org/0000000194661173

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppk.2023.02.18

Biblioteka Nauki

2197722