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... were a remarkable stretch of authority . Not only so , but they represented an extraordinary failure on the part of the national Government , and particularly of the President and the Federal party , to read the signs of the times .
... were a remarkable stretch of authority . Not only so , but they represented an extraordinary failure on the part of the national Government , and particularly of the President and the Federal party , to read the signs of the times .
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I have discussed this matter with fulness in my history of the Kentucky Resolutions , while the opposite opinion has been ably presented by one of the chief authorities upon the subject , the late James C. Welling , president of ...
I have discussed this matter with fulness in my history of the Kentucky Resolutions , while the opposite opinion has been ably presented by one of the chief authorities upon the subject , the late James C. Welling , president of ...
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It is important , however , to note that the view of the nature of the general Government , which may be regarded as having the support of the best authority at the present time , was clearly enunciated in the Kentucky legislature by ...
It is important , however , to note that the view of the nature of the general Government , which may be regarded as having the support of the best authority at the present time , was clearly enunciated in the Kentucky legislature by ...
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... and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities , rights , and liberties appertaining to them . ... of such a State to interpose its authority for their protection in the manner best calculated to secure the end .
... and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities , rights , and liberties appertaining to them . ... of such a State to interpose its authority for their protection in the manner best calculated to secure the end .
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... of its own motion , nullify any act of the Federal Government it objects to , and stay its operation , until threefourths of all the States come to the aid of the national authority and reënact the nullified measure .
... of its own motion , nullify any act of the Federal Government it objects to , and stay its operation , until threefourths of all the States come to the aid of the national authority and reënact the nullified measure .
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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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