To what extent was the Constitution as originally ratified successful
in resolving the issue of the relative powers and authority of the
state versus national governments? For what reasons and with what
results did the issue come once again into national debate during the
years from 1850 to 1861?

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Request for Question Clarification by playhosea-ga on 05 Dec 2002 14:59 PST

Approximately how long do you wish your answer to be?

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Clarification of Question by zana-ga on 05 Dec 2002 15:25 PST

i need the answer to be approximately 6-7 typed pages.

The Constituion did a surpringly good job of anticipating the efforts
to under mine it, that would come later. Within a decade several
states, reilized that the stronger states could re-interpert the
Constitution dishonestly and unethically. By 1850 when some counties
were abolishing slavery, the South reilized that they would eventually
loose on this issue as they had already lost on many other issues.
Statements about abolition typically concentrated on non-slavery
issues where practices had departed far from the apparent intent of
the authors of the Constitution.  Neil