Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) |
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The States - less than the whole number - have a right to interpose , secured , as already shown , in the Constitution ; and this , not only persuasively , but peremptorily ; to compel the action they may desire ; and it is demonstrable ...
The States - less than the whole number - have a right to interpose , secured , as already shown , in the Constitution ; and this , not only persuasively , but peremptorily ; to compel the action they may desire ; and it is demonstrable ...
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Now , sir , I do not desire to call in question the motives of the gentlemen who composed that assembly ; I knew many of them to be in private life accomplished and honorable men , and I doubt not there were some among them who did not ...
Now , sir , I do not desire to call in question the motives of the gentlemen who composed that assembly ; I knew many of them to be in private life accomplished and honorable men , and I doubt not there were some among them who did not ...
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And she had done it for no other compensation , with no other intention , with no other desire than her expectation of the protection of the general Government . After that struggle was over she was an independent sovereign ; she owed ...
And she had done it for no other compensation , with no other intention , with no other desire than her expectation of the protection of the general Government . After that struggle was over she was an independent sovereign ; she owed ...
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We desire that this record may bear witness for us to all future times , that we have earnestly remonstrated with our brethren against the extension of an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us ; and , with full experience of the ruinous ...
We desire that this record may bear witness for us to all future times , that we have earnestly remonstrated with our brethren against the extension of an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us ; and , with full experience of the ruinous ...
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And , if its plain provisions shall now be disregarded , and these new doctrines interpolated in it , it will become as feeble and helpless a being as its enemies , whether early or more recent , could possibly desire .
And , if its plain provisions shall now be disregarded , and these new doctrines interpolated in it , it will become as feeble and helpless a being as its enemies , whether early or more recent , could possibly desire .
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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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