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Abel P. Upshur

Our Federal Government

Mises Daily

Author: Abel P. Upshur

Online Publish Date: April 14, 2010

Category: Biographies, Free Markets, Legal System, U.S. History

[This article is excerpted from A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government (1840). The work critiques Justice Joseph Story’s widely esteemed Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States and its support of strong centralized government. Upshur instead describes the Constitution as a compact created by a

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