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Correct,

It was entitled, "A View of the Constitution of the United States, 1829" by William Rawle, online at http://www.constitution.org/wr/rawle-00.htm

Rawle was a federal judge appointed by George Washington. That was also discussed on this board a couple of years ago. This judge held, if I remember right, that while secession was undesirable, and that it would have dire side effects, that secession was a right of the States and that nothing within the Constitution prohibited it.

In fact the book was published in 1829 which was well after the Hartford Convention in which the New England states threatened secession during the Monroe adminstration.

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