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Τ HE repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Dred Scott decision marked the high tide of victory for the South in the controversy upon slavery . It was soon seen , however , indeed it had been foreseen before their accomplishment ...
Τ HE repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Dred Scott decision marked the high tide of victory for the South in the controversy upon slavery . It was soon seen , however , indeed it had been foreseen before their accomplishment ...
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... States which have no common umpire must be their own judges , and execute their own 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 ...
... States which have no common umpire must be their own judges , and execute their own 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 ...
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That question was decided by the people , and by that 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 Carolina ...
That question was decided by the people , and by that 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 Carolina ...
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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.
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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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 Government without limitation of powers .
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 Government without limitation of powers .
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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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