STILL TOO CLOSE TO CALL? RETHINKING STAMPP'S "THE CONCEPT OF A PERPETUAL UNION.".

The article presents information on civil war historian Kenneth Stampp who claimed that the arguments in favor of the constitutionality of secession made by the Southern States were strong. It informs that Stampp deployed a sort of historically nuanced originalism, not in the service of answering a modem constitutional question, but in the service of demonstrating an important ambiguity in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1787.