Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... decision marked the high tide of vic- tory for the South in the controversy upon slavery . It was soon seen , however , indeed it had been foreseen before their accomplishment , that the triumph would prove a merely formal one , empty ...
... decision marked the high tide of vic- tory for the South in the controversy upon slavery . It was soon seen , however , indeed it had been foreseen before their accomplishment , that the triumph would prove a merely formal one , empty ...
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... decisions . Without pausing at present to comment upon the causes of the war , it may be assumed as a truth , officially announced , that to achieve the conquest of Canadian territory , and to hold it as a pledge for peace , is the ...
... decisions . Without pausing at present to comment upon the causes of the war , it may be assumed as a truth , officially announced , that to achieve the conquest of Canadian territory , and to hold it as a pledge for peace , is the ...
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... decision the Constitution was , in the emphatic language of Mr. Jefferson , " saved at its last gasp . " Resting on authority like this , I will ask gentlemen whether South Caro- lina has not manifested a high regard for the Union when ...
... decision the Constitution was , in the emphatic language of Mr. Jefferson , " saved at its last gasp . " Resting on authority like this , I will ask gentlemen whether South Caro- lina has not manifested a high regard for the Union when ...
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... invested with this power . If the Federal Government , in all or any of its departments , is to prescribe the limits of its own authority , and the States are " " bound to submit to the decision , and WEBSTER - HAYNE DEBATE 45.
... invested with this power . If the Federal Government , in all or any of its departments , is to prescribe the limits of its own authority , and the States are " " bound to submit to the decision , and WEBSTER - HAYNE DEBATE 45.
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Marion Mills Miller. " " bound to submit to the decision , and are not to be allowed to examine and decide for themselves , when the barriers of the Constitution shall be overleaped , this is practically " a Govern- ment without ...
Marion Mills Miller. " " bound to submit to the decision , and are not to be allowed to examine and decide for themselves , when the barriers of the Constitution shall be overleaped , this is practically " a Govern- ment without ...
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