Some historians believe that the Civil War was caused by a failure of the American political system, during the fifty years before the war, to solve
Some historians believe that the Civil War was caused by a failure of the American political system, during the fifty years before the war, to solve problems arising from states’ rights and the expansion of slavery into the west. Other historians believe that the causes of the Civil War reside in a basic failure of the constitution to provide a framework for solving these problems. […]