One assumes that West Point was also the source of learning for those
officers who served for the union. If this text was used until 1840, and
South Carolina did not secede until twenty years later, it could be
interesting what younger officers learned on this point. Do you know what
text followed the Rawle one? How did the next text treat this issue? Was
the issue taught similarly at the Naval Academy?

                                         Anne

At 08:43 AM 3/11/03 -0500, Jeffrey Duke Southmayd wrote:
>         William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States of
>America, was a standard text used at the US Military Academy from 1825-1840
>(and other colleges as well), and is still in the library at West Point
>today.  The author was a Philadelphia lawyer (figures) and staunch Federalist
>who maintained that under the Constitution each state had the right to
>determine whether it would remain a member of the Union or not.  If
>interested, you might check out Edgar S. Dudley, "Was 'Secession' Taught At
>West Point?", The Century Magazine (New York 1909), Volume LXXVIII, page 635.
>
>JDS

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