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Yet , when John Breckinridge arose in his place to give notice that he would on the next day introduce certain resolutions , he set in motion one of the greatest political movements in American history . The governor , General James ...
Yet , when John Breckinridge arose in his place to give notice that he would on the next day introduce certain resolutions , he set in motion one of the greatest political movements in American history . The governor , General James ...
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The Sedition act was So amended as to remove the more radical features , but enough remained to give point to all that was said against the acts themselves and the party that enacted them . Mr. Jefferson had already separated himself ...
The Sedition act was So amended as to remove the more radical features , but enough remained to give point to all that was said against the acts themselves and the party that enacted them . Mr. Jefferson had already separated himself ...
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The Kentucky Resolutions were primarily intended to promote the Jeffersonian campaign and to give it a platform . They professed to be an attack upon specific encroachments by the central Government . Their significance lies in the fact ...
The Kentucky Resolutions were primarily intended to promote the Jeffersonian campaign and to give it a platform . They professed to be an attack upon specific encroachments by the central Government . Their significance lies in the fact ...
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... the implied powers of the Constitution when he became President . The danger of his position can hardly be over - estimated . The history of the resolutions and the struggle to give to them widely divergent interpretations , ranging ...
... the implied powers of the Constitution when he became President . The danger of his position can hardly be over - estimated . The history of the resolutions and the struggle to give to them widely divergent interpretations , ranging ...
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A letter of Jefferson to Justice William Johnston , on June 12 , 1823 , gives in a nutshell the opinion of the author of ... Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs [ i . e . , the Federal ...
A letter of Jefferson to Justice William Johnston , on June 12 , 1823 , gives in a nutshell the opinion of the author of ... Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs [ i . e . , the Federal ...
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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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