El constitucionalismo estadounidense y la nación de mediados del siglo XIX

• Roman Romashov Murmansk Arctic State University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9777-8625
• Ekaterina Petrova Ivanovo State University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9149-3888
• Zurab Kalandarishvili Saint-Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-1809
• Victor Kovalev Saint-Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0040-5828

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3971.37

Keywords: Causes of the Civil War, American constitutionalism, U.S. legal system, slavery in American history, legal-institutional history

Abstract

The authors of the article have studied the causes of the American Civil War with due regard to the history of constitutional law. This research is based on several political, economic, legal and cultural factors. The authors used the method of analyzing historical documents. After analyzing judicial precedents and global historical trends, they have concluded that America’s constitutional institutes lost their effectiveness and became a weapon in the hands of struggling parties during the constitutional crisis. As a result, the compromise system of the early nineteenth century became a new state and legal structure.

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