{"id":257,"date":"2022-08-30T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T11:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/?page_id=257"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:09:19","slug":"sectionalism-and-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/syllabus\/sectionalism-and-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sectionalism and the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The second founding can only be understood as part of a much longer debate about rights, democracy, and equality, one that continues to this day.\u00a0 &#8211;Eric Foner, SECOND FOUNDING (2019), p. 20<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_420\" style=\"width: 927px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2022\/10\/ChristianaColorizednew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-420\" class=\"wp-image-420 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2022\/10\/ChristianaColorizednew.jpg\" alt=\"Christiana\" width=\"917\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2022\/10\/ChristianaColorizednew.jpg 917w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2022\/10\/ChristianaColorizednew-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2022\/10\/ChristianaColorizednew-768x400.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorized image of the 1851 Christiana &#8220;riot&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/\">UGRR Handbook \/ NPS and House Divided Project<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Select Terms from the Fugitive Crisis of the 1850s<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Freedom seekers vs. fugitive slaves<\/li>\n<li>Fugitive Slave clause (Art. IV Sec. 2) vs. Fugitive Slave laws (1793, 1850)<\/li>\n<li>Fugitive slave commissioners vs. kidnappers<\/li>\n<li>Personal liberty vs. slave stealing laws<\/li>\n<li>Rendition vs. Recaption<\/li>\n<li>Supreme Court: Prigg<em> v. Pennsylvania<\/em> (1842), <em>Abelman v. Booth<\/em> (1859)<\/li>\n<li>Vigilance committees vs. Underground Railroad<\/li>\n<li>Some People to remember:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/tile.loc.gov\/storage-services\/service\/ll\/llst\/072\/072.pdf\">George Alberti<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/slavery\/people\/richard-mcallister\/\">Richard McAllister<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1857-addison-white-rescue\/\">Addison White<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Select Terms from the Border Crisis of the 2020s<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Asylum seeker vs. refugee \/\/ undocumented immigrants vs. illegal aliens<\/li>\n<li>National Origins Act (1924) \/\/ Hart-Celler Act (1965) \/\/ Immigration Reform (1986)<\/li>\n<li>Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)<\/li>\n<li>Sanctuary cities, sanctuary states \/\/ Blue states vs. Red states<\/li>\n<li>Removal (deportation) vs. return (self-deportation)<\/li>\n<li>Supreme Court: <em>Trump v. CASA<\/em> (birthright), <em>Noem v. Al Otro Lado<\/em> (asylum)<\/li>\n<li>ACLU and advocacy (resistance) groups (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights)<\/li>\n<li>Some People to remember:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/fact-checking\/2024\/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-deportations\/\">Tom Homan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-plan-to-leave-chicago-area-sources-say\/\">Greg Bovino<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ice-official-testifying-abrego-garcia-liberia\/\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarkeforum.org\/the-fugitive-slave-law\/\"><strong>Check out Constitution Day panel from 2018:\u00a0 The Fugitive Slave Law and the Crisis Over Immigration Policy (75 minute video)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2025\/11\/Fugitive-Slave-Law-Panel-FINAL-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-813\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2025\/11\/Fugitive-Slave-Law-Panel-FINAL-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"panel\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2025\/11\/Fugitive-Slave-Law-Panel-FINAL-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2025\/11\/Fugitive-Slave-Law-Panel-FINAL-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2025\/11\/Fugitive-Slave-Law-Panel-FINAL-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2025\/11\/Fugitive-Slave-Law-Panel-FINAL-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2025\/11\/Fugitive-Slave-Law-Panel-FINAL-2048x1325.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second founding can only be understood as part of a much longer debate about rights, democracy, and equality, one that continues to this day.\u00a0 &#8211;Eric Foner, SECOND FOUNDING (2019), p. 20 Select Terms from the Fugitive Crisis of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/syllabus\/sectionalism-and-the-constitution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions\/825"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}