The Sovereign States: Notes of a Citizen of Virginia, presents the best explanation we have found of the proper view of our Federal Union-this great Confederate Republic, composed of free, sovereign and independent States. Written during the Southern resistance to the palpably unconstitutional Brown v. Board of Education decree of 1954, author James J. Kilpatrick presents a clear and lucid exposition, accessible to the lay reader, of the founding of our present Constitutional Republic, the historic events that have shaped it, and the challenges we face today to restore constitutional government and preserve liberty under law for ourselves and our posterity.