quasi-amendment

Updated: May 12, 2025

Close construction of the Constitution could never again throttle this Union. Whether such quasi-amendment altered the Constitution, Stephens's view, or served but to bring out more clearly its old meaning, our view, practically the war had entailed enormous new exaltation and centralization of the Union, with answering subordination of the State.

Elisha Benjamin Andrews - History of the United States, Volume 4