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The convention believes that some new form of confederacy should be substituted among those States which shall intend to maintain a federal relation to each other . Events may prove that the causes of our calamities are deep and ...
The convention believes that some new form of confederacy should be substituted among those States which shall intend to maintain a federal relation to each other . Events may prove that the causes of our calamities are deep and ...
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Because the good people of this commonwealth believe that the powers of Congress were delegated to it in trust for the accomplishment of certain specified objects which limit and control them , and that every exercise of them for any ...
Because the good people of this commonwealth believe that the powers of Congress were delegated to it in trust for the accomplishment of certain specified objects which limit and control them , and that every exercise of them for any ...
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... and individuals - utterly destructive to the purity and fatal to the duration of our institutions . It would be equally fatal to the sovereignty and independence of the States . Sir , I am one of those who believe that the very life ...
... and individuals - utterly destructive to the purity and fatal to the duration of our institutions . It would be equally fatal to the sovereignty and independence of the States . Sir , I am one of those who believe that the very life ...
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What they said I believe ; fully and sincerely believe , that the Union of the States is essential to the prosperity and safety of the States . I am a unionist , and in this sense a National Republican . I would strengthen the ties that ...
What they said I believe ; fully and sincerely believe , that the Union of the States is essential to the prosperity and safety of the States . I am a unionist , and in this sense a National Republican . I would strengthen the ties that ...
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... and sedition laws , she has hitherto gone no further than to petition , remonstrate , and solemnly to protest against a series of measures which she believes to be wholly unconstitutional and utterly destructive of her interests ?
... and sedition laws , she has hitherto gone no further than to petition , remonstrate , and solemnly to protest against a series of measures which she believes to be wholly unconstitutional and utterly destructive of her interests ?
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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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