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With a power in Congress to authorize such a draft or conscription , and in the Executive to decide conclusively upon the existence and continuance of the emergency , the whole militia may be converted into a standing army disposable at ...
With a power in Congress to authorize such a draft or conscription , and in the Executive to decide conclusively upon the existence and continuance of the emergency , the whole militia may be converted into a standing army disposable at ...
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Finally because South Carolina , from her climate , situation , and peculiar institutions , is , and must ever continue to be , wholly dependent upon agriculture and commerce , not only for her prosperity but for her very existence as a ...
Finally because South Carolina , from her climate , situation , and peculiar institutions , is , and must ever continue to be , wholly dependent upon agriculture and commerce , not only for her prosperity but for her very existence as a ...
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... that they now protest against a system which not only aims a fatal blow at the prosperity of South Carolina ( dependent as she must ever continue upon agriculture and commerce ) , but which threatens her very existence as a State .
... that they now protest against a system which not only aims a fatal blow at the prosperity of South Carolina ( dependent as she must ever continue upon agriculture and commerce ) , but which threatens her very existence as a State .
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... perhaps our national existence . This important consideration , seriously and deeply impressed on our minds , led each State in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ...
... perhaps our national existence . This important consideration , seriously and deeply impressed on our minds , led each State in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ...
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... if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it ; if folly and madness ; if uneasiness , under salutary and necessary restraint , shall succeed to separate it from that Union by which alone its existence is made sure ...
... if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it ; if folly and madness ; if uneasiness , under salutary and necessary restraint , shall succeed to separate it from that Union by which alone its existence is made sure ...
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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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