Nullification and Secession in the United States: A History of the Six Attempts During the First Century of the RepublicA study of sucession and nullification movements in the United States from the nullification resolutions of 1798 to the American Civil War. Powell proposes that the secession of the southern states in 1861 was not a unique event in American history, but the culmination of a tradition as old as the nation. Indeed, he argues, it was an expression of the "intense individualism which was the most potent factor in the creation of the republic" (Preface). Sensitive to the continued animosity between the North and South, Powell hoped that the historical context provided by his study would help to promote a spirit of reconciliation. The six attempts at nullification and secession that he examines are: - the Nullification Resolutions of 1798 - the plot for a northern confederacy (1803-1804) - the Burr plot (1805-1806) - New England nullification and the Hartford Convention (1812-1814) - South Carolina's attempts at nullification (1832) - the secession of 11 states and creation of the confederacy (1861). |
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... taxation without representation . Charles II . said in 1676 : " Taxes ought not to be laid on the inhabitants and proprietors of the colony ( Virginia ) , but by the common consent of the General Assembly . " At the close of the war ...
... taxes and impositions on the inhabitants of this colony . " Patrick Henry , a young lawyer , by his defense of this ... taxation , and dissolved . The Stamp Act was soon rescinded by Parliament as a consequence . In 1768 , English troops ...
... taxes , it conducted war , it negotiated treaties ; its only credentials of authority being the exigencies of the times . The history of legis- lation before or since shows nothing more admirable for patriotism , or more statesmanlike ...
... tax to pay the debt incurred by the Revolution . It was 1786 before the States had all acted ; and then New York had nullified the plan . Resort was had to created or fiat money . Debts were paid in paper . But credit was not given ...
... tax for paying for all the negroes in the United States than saddle posterity with such a Constitution . " In fact , the Constitution never would have been adopted had not New Englanders come to the rescue . Ellsworth of Connecticut ...
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June 25 1798 2 The Sedition Act July 14 1798 | 97 |
CHAPTER III | 105 |
ugees in New York 2 Letter of Hamilton to | 150 |
PAGE | 153 |
tory to the United States Senate 2 President Jef | 198 |
SOUTH CAROLINA NULLIFICATION IN 1832 | 241 |
Proposal of Canning 2 President Monroes Mes | 294 |
CHAPTER VII | 328 |
CONCLUDING | 435 |
from Hon T M Cooley on Centralization 2 | 449 |