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The Sedition act was So amended as to remove the more radical features , but enough remained to give point to all that was said against the acts themselves and the party that enacted them . Mr. Jefferson had already separated himself ...
The Sedition act was So amended as to remove the more radical features , but enough remained to give point to all that was said against the acts themselves and the party that enacted them . Mr. Jefferson had already separated himself ...
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... a change of policy , or an amendment of the Constitutionaccording as one or the other , or all , may be required to remedy . the evil complained of ; whereas nullification claims that a single State may , of its own motion , nullify ...
... a change of policy , or an amendment of the Constitutionaccording as one or the other , or all , may be required to remedy . the evil complained of ; whereas nullification claims that a single State may , of its own motion , nullify ...
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They are much like the Resolutions of 1798 , but conclude by demanding an amendment to the Constitution to grant the doubtful power , and by promising for the State and imposing upon the citizens of the State an acquiescence in the acts ...
They are much like the Resolutions of 1798 , but conclude by demanding an amendment to the Constitution to grant the doubtful power , and by promising for the State and imposing upon the citizens of the State an acquiescence in the acts ...
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To enumerate all the improvements of which that instrument is susceptible , and to propose such amendments as might render it in all respects perfect , would be a task which this convention has not thought proper to assume .
To enumerate all the improvements of which that instrument is susceptible , and to propose such amendments as might render it in all respects perfect , would be a task which this convention has not thought proper to assume .
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The first amendment proposed relates to the apportionment of representatives among the slaveholding States . This cannot be claimed as a right . Those States are entitled to the slave representation by a constitutional compact .
The first amendment proposed relates to the apportionment of representatives among the slaveholding States . This cannot be claimed as a right . Those States are entitled to the slave representation by a constitutional compact .
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| Title | Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) Volume 5 of Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913), Marion Mills Miller |
| Editor | Marion Mills Miller |
| Contributors | United States. Congress, Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2010 |
| ISBN | 0810803860, 9780810803862 |
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