The Civil War: A Constitutional Conflict - Paperback

by Terry Jansen (Author)

This is the story of how Negro slavery caused the American Civil War. The first permanent English colony at Jamestown Virginia became a landed aristocracy with founding fathers, legislators, and slaveholders; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. The slave statutes enacted by the Virginia House of Burgesses show how the Negro was enslaved and the justification for the enslavement was incorporated in the documents of democracy. Slavery was the divisive issue; which led to the secession of states from the United States, the Confederate States of America, a Constitutional conflict, and Civil War.

Author Biography

Terry Jansen is a retired civil servant who lives with her cat, Dusty in California. In 1993, she became an off-campus student at Goddard College in Vermont. For the next three years she wrote, The Civil War: A Constitutional Conflict. Her interest in history, 3-year self-representation in a Workers' Compensation case and passion for civil rights were the inspiration for her paper. An openly gay American and lifelong Democrat she voted on November 4, 2008. Ms. Jansen voted no on Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage in California, as a circumvention of her civil rights under the Due Process clause of The 5th Amendment to The U.S. Constitution. She also voted for Barack Obama, an African-American, and the 44th President of the United States who will take the oath of office to defend the Constitution to ensure the rights of all Americans.