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It cannot be absolutely certain from the documents at hand that Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Jefferson discussed the matter in detail . The Jefferson papers contain a set of resolutions similar to those introduced into the legislature by ...
It cannot be absolutely certain from the documents at hand that Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Jefferson discussed the matter in detail . The Jefferson papers contain a set of resolutions similar to those introduced into the legislature by ...
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... that as such they supplied a popular plan of campaign . On the other hand , recent investigation has made more and more clear the fact that , despite very prevalent discontent with the action of the general Government INTRODUCTION 7.
... that as such they supplied a popular plan of campaign . On the other hand , recent investigation has made more and more clear the fact that , despite very prevalent discontent with the action of the general Government INTRODUCTION 7.
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On the one hand , this sentence has arrayed against it a great mass of contemporary testimony ; on the other , if it is to stand as Jefferson's perfected theory , every atom of Calhoun's perfected theory finds in it a perfect antetype .
On the one hand , this sentence has arrayed against it a great mass of contemporary testimony ; on the other , if it is to stand as Jefferson's perfected theory , every atom of Calhoun's perfected theory finds in it a perfect antetype .
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In proportion to its dangers should be our solicitude to avoid it by abstaining , on the one hand , from acts of doubtful legislation , as well as by the manner of resistance , on the other , to those which ...
In proportion to its dangers should be our solicitude to avoid it by abstaining , on the one hand , from acts of doubtful legislation , as well as by the manner of resistance , on the other , to those which ...
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If I had , sir , the power of a magician , and could , by a wave of my hand , convert this Capitol into gold for such a purpose , I would not do it . If I could , by a mere act of my will , put at the disposal of the Federal Government ...
If I had , sir , the power of a magician , and could , by a wave of my hand , convert this Capitol into gold for such a purpose , I would not do it . If I could , by a mere act of my will , put at the disposal of the Federal Government ...
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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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