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... are the Virginia Republicans of 1798 accused of planting the seeds of dissolution - a " deadly poison , " as Mr. Madison himself emphatically calls the doctrine of nullification - in the institutions they 14 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
... are the Virginia Republicans of 1798 accused of planting the seeds of dissolution - a " deadly poison , " as Mr. Madison himself emphatically calls the doctrine of nullification - in the institutions they 14 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
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phatically calls the doctrine of nullification - in the institutions they had so labored to construct . The theory of a " compact " between the States and the Federal Government , as expressed by Jefferson and Madison in the resolutions ...
phatically calls the doctrine of nullification - in the institutions they had so labored to construct . The theory of a " compact " between the States and the Federal Government , as expressed by Jefferson and Madison in the resolutions ...
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The genius of our institutions is unfavorable to its successful prosecution ; the felicity of our situation exempts us from its necessity . In this case , as in the former , those more immediately exposed to its fatal effects are a ...
The genius of our institutions is unfavorable to its successful prosecution ; the felicity of our situation exempts us from its necessity . In this case , as in the former , those more immediately exposed to its fatal effects are a ...
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The case of a conflict between these two powers has not been supposed ; nor has any provision been made for it in our institutions as a virtuous nation of ancient times existed more than five centuries without a law for the punishment ...
The case of a conflict between these two powers has not been supposed ; nor has any provision been made for it in our institutions as a virtuous nation of ancient times existed more than five centuries without a law for the punishment ...
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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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| 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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